During a day of furniture shopping, theHer Smellactress ponders just how dark she can get.
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Shes given up or lost at least three children, investigated pedophile rings, and lit herself on fire.
She has dismembered dead bodies, murdered her best friend, and fatally shot at least two abusive ex-husbands.
I love rose gold, she says, bouncing slightly, stroking the pillows.
She points at a blush rug.
(I just liked how it sounded, she says.
Im attracted to the idea of softness and strength.)
Its now going to be this weird pink room that scares people.
Theres a brief two-week period where its unpacked, and then it just gets filled with shit again.
I havent been home for longer than two weeks in three years.
Moss, whom this magazine once coined theQueen of Peak TV,is not exaggerating about her schedule.
Moss knows she has a propensity for choosing what she calls specific, odd, dark roles.
I dont think Im better at those sorts of parts than anyone else, she laughs.
I just have a severe attraction to unplayable characters.
I wish I could say something deep about it.
It was so fun for me, she says.
And now I love doing that.
(I feel like Ive been on a journey with her, she says.
Ive had breakups at the same time as her, found people at the same time as her.
I would die to be in her squad.)
I hate activities, she tells me, when we first meet, to partake in an activity.
I dont do anything.
Why isnt drinking considered an activity?
(Shes 37.)
Perhaps its because shes incapable of taking anything about herself very seriously.
I toy with being a Method actor.
I often think,Wow, maybe I should do that.
Maybe I need to get more fucked up.
Her Smell, she concedes, was slightly different.
But I wouldnt worry about it.
It was just a sort of mind train I was on, she says.
It was one of the only characters where I didnt love playing her at every moment.
I wanted to shake her off and didnt want to be her anymore.
Shed exhaust me, because I pushed myself so much.
But I remember thinking,The only thing Ill regret is if I didnt go far enough with this.
So she went full-on for a month straight.
Everyone would be hanging out and Id be in the corner, practicing my guitar, she laughs.
They knew what I had to do, so nobody took any offense.
Its such a great job, and one I sign up for.
So whenever actors are like, It was sooo hard … Im like, Come on!
I get it, its tiring …
I dont always want to wake up at 4 in the fucking morning.
But … come on.
I want to know who was there.
Who did she marry?
How long have they been together?
Maybe she was busy.
She regrets bringing up her owndating life in a recent interview.
Im not dating that person anymore, she says.
Im fine, hes fine, everyones fine.
But I learned my lesson.
She suggests we walk a few blocks away for a cocktail at her favorite restaurant, Lincoln Ristorante.
In the years since, Moss been asked about her feminism in nearly every interview shes ever done.
Thats really funny, she says, totally unruffled by my admission.
We were definitely being confusing.
But what I never got the chance to say is, the context of that was so weird.
Were 12 people onstage.
Weve only just seen the episode.
I kind of dont understand the moderator.
We were a little green.
Of course its a feminist show.
Of course Im a fucking feminist.
It was a teaching moment for me I didnt know people gave a shit about what I said.
But if people need me to say it, Ill say it over and over again.
But she is aware of the critics who suggest that June should, well,die already.
I totally understand, she laughs.
Bitch is a cat who has had nine fucking lives.
She 100 percent probably should be dead.
But also shes the lead character, what do you want us to do?
She teases that season four will have more narrative propulsion than the last.
She cant go back [to Gilead]!
We cheers to the bitch with nine lives.
I really want to play a real villain, she says.
Becky Something is a villain, in a way, but I want Nazis.
I learned from Jordan Peele, doingUs, that you’ve got the option to have both.
it’s possible for you to have people in the theater laughing at how scared they are.
Everyone stays in the same hotel, everyone has dinner every night.
Suddenly, Moss jumps up.
Oh, fuck, man!
I gotta go.
My mom is here.
No, she says.
Nope, she says.
Yeah, its a pen, she says.
Im terrible at keeping secrets.
