The nun-vs.-AI joyride 'Mrs. Davis' never met a genre it couldn't mutate, and Betty Gilpin is there for it
Leading an unhinged sci-fi/spiritual/philosophical action-comedy-drama-mystery as a nun named Simone? Betty Gilpin was all in.
"My agents were like, 'You have to pretend to be cool and aloof, like you have other things going on,' " in approaching her pursuit of the role. I was like, 'Guys, I will do whatever it takes. I wanna start filming tomorrow,'" Gilpin says of her hardball negotiating tactics when it came to Peacock's "Mrs. Davis."
The "" and "" star had previously scored big leading a" and "" creator — her experience in the deliciously wicked (and ) film "" made her keen to work with him again. When he told her, during the lockdown, he had "met this genius named , and we're making this show called ',' I quietly was like, 'I wanna play Mrs. Davis,' not knowing what it was," she says, laughing. "Months later, he sent me the script. I had that stomach-turning moment of, 'Oh, God, I want this so bad.' I can't be cool about it. I just want it."
