Rachel Griffiths is well-known for her roles in big films like “Step Up,” “The Rookie,” “Muriel’s Wedding,” and “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” but in recent years, she’s taken on more roles in several TV shows. Along with “The Wilds,” she’s recently been in “Total Control,” “Aftertaste,” and “When We Rise” (via IMDb). During her exclusive interview with The List, the actress shared that she’s been loving taking those TV roles because they give her more of a chance to explore her characters. “I was really frustrated with how limited your scale is in most films that you get to do. In television, you get these two-page speeches and a huge variety of opportunities to show different colors,” Griffiths said.
That’s also why she’s so excited for Season 2 of “The Wilds.” Because she’d already played Gretchen Klein in the first season, she got to dive even deeper and make the role more nuanced.
“The gift of the second season is you’ve established the characters — the writers know the actor that’s playing it. They can see how they’re going to handle certain situations. They’ve got a sense of where they can take a character and whether or not the actor can do it,” Griffiths said. “Every second season, it feels like the characters are richer … A movie would’ve been the first two episodes of “The Wilds,” and that’s the only Gretchen you would’ve ever got to see.”
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