The Poguesare about to meet their match.
That’s a lot to deal with already but the Pogues haven’t seen anything yet.
“I really found her to be great,” Mitchell tells EW of her new season 2 character.
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“I was terrified to do it, so that’s why I said yes.”
She thinks she’s something that she’s not.
And I’ve always enjoyed characters like that."
Below, Mitchell talks with EW about what else fans can expect from her new villain inOuter Banksseason 2.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tell me more about your new season 2 character, Carla Limbrey.
I enjoyed her lack of self-awareness.
That was really fun for me.
But I found her challenging for sure.
She was hard for me to love.
But I found my way.
Do you consider her a villain?
I decided that she didn’t care if she was seen as a villain.
So therefore her life was indeed more important.
So I don’t think that she would care so much to be viewed as an antagonist.
I think she’d probably be surprised, but I don’t think she’d care.
I know that she would never see herself that way.
I’m from Texas, and we like our eccentric people.
So that’s just Carla; she’s just like that.
It’s an interesting way of thinking about it.
Did you watch the first season before you joined the cast for season 2?
I don’t know why I didn’t watch it, because it’s totally right up my alley.
I mean, I love all those teenage, happy, sunshine, wonderful things.
They’re such a joy to watch; they’re such a nice escape.
And then probably halfway through the second I was beyond hooked.
I watched everything back-to-back, I did not stop.
I did not leave that couch.
And I was captivated.
And then, of course, I was nervous!
So maybe it was a bad idea.
What kinds of conversations did you have with the showrunners about how to play this new antagonist?
I had strong ideas based on how they came up with her.
I mean, she was a feeling before she was a person.
She was that feeling of deteriorating wealth, that feeling of deteriorating grace.
And I thought that was really interesting.
What value do you place on yourself?
That was my odd little thing that I took with me in playing her.
She’ll do anything to save herself and she doesn’t have anything to lose.
She’s not healthy; she’s not able to physically be a problem.
But mentally, what she’s willing to do is pretty, pretty vicious.
And I find that to be really scary.
[Laughs] I wouldn’t go up against her for sure.
I found it to be kind of a wonderful thing.
You are not feeling well.
And feeling unwell, feeling hurt, feeling less, that makes you angry, right?
It makes you frustrated.
It gives you a little bit of that desperation, just naturally.
So the physical part actually really helped me find her.
I found it very predator-like.
It’s almost like she saw herself as the top and then everyone else was not nearly as interesting.
That’s very good to hear.
When we meet her, she’s clearly suffering from a terminal illness that impacts her physically.
Are you able to say what that illness is?
And they were pretty specific about it.
It’s fairly brutal.
She’s not long for this world, for sure.
What do you think is going to surprise people about where Carla’s arc goes this season?
You’re no stranger to filming in gorgeous tropical locations afterLost
And with beautiful people!
So how did shootingOuter Bankscompare to your time onLost?
It was amazing, I loved being [back in that environment].
Every time I get to go back to the beach I’m always so thrilled.
I find that being surrounded by beauty does some pretty great things to your state of mind.
There was some tremendous emotional satisfaction from filming and watching this season.
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