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On the brand new Hulu comedy “Maggie” — premiering Wednesday, July 6 — Maggie (Rebecca Rittenhouse, “4 Weddings and a Funeral”) is a psychic who can see into the way forward for her buddies, mother and father, random folks and shoppers who search out her psychic providers. Evidently, this complicates her relationship life, particularly when she sees her personal future and that of an entire stranger overlapping.
Rittenhouse, 33, answered some questions on “Maggie” for The Put up by way of e-mail.
What attracted you to this present?
The concept of taking part in a psychic appeared form of enjoyable, however truthfully, it’s much less attention-grabbing to me than telling this comparatively simple story concerning the balancing act between making an attempt to do every part proper/making an attempt to manage all of the variables in life and recognizing that we miss the expertise of life if we are able to’t simply be in it — errors and all.
Did you do something, specifically, to organize for the function?
I talked to my household good friend who's a psychic and reads tarot [cards], however truthfully, Maggie being psychic isn’t what the present is actually about. It’s actually concerning the challenges of dwelling your life within the second and making one of the best choices you'll be able to with the knowledge you’ve received (even while you assume you already know what’s going to occur) as a result of Maggie typically doesn’t see the entire image. Her expertise is common in that approach.
What components of Maggie’s life or character do you discover to be probably the most relatable?
Maggie’s relationship expertise. She typically makes use of her imaginative and prescient as an excuse to shut herself off [since] she assumes she is aware of every part a couple of state of affairs based mostly on what she sees. She will even write folks off based mostly on foolish issues, however the actuality is that she each desires a relationship and is scared of 1, as a result of she’s afraid of getting damage. I feel we are able to all relate to that. I additionally assume her relationship along with her mother and father could be super-relatable. She has a present and it’s form of unbelievable, and the self-acceptance, in addition to the acceptance and assist from her mother and father, is certainly a journey.
Once you had been fascinated with the best way to play Maggie, did you draw inspiration from something specifically?
I feel psychics, mediums, and mystics are sometimes portrayed as odd and kooky, so I wished Maggie to really feel extraordinarily grounded. She didn’t select to be psychic, and I feel she’s making an attempt to maneuver via the world with some sense of normalcy. I wished to painting her as somebody who's making an attempt to simply accept and have fun what’s particular about her with out completely letting it outline her.
What was probably the most pleasurable a part of the function?
Everyone seems to be so humorous and joyful. For no matter purpose, my scenes with Ray Ford had been at all times shot so shortly, most likely as a result of they had been so enjoyable and pleasurable — like a ping pong match. I additionally completely beloved engaged on Maggie’s costumes/hair and make-up. We didn’t need her to appear to be she dressed the a part of a psychic in a stereotypical approach, however we positively wished her to have a sartorial identification. In a single episode, Maggie will get invited to this super-exclusive social gathering for psychics and mystics and he or she finally ends up feeling like an outcast. I made a decision to put on a very completely different coiffure from Maggie’s norm in that episode as a result of I wished to lean into the concept that she was perhaps making an attempt too laborious to slot in … and it doesn’t go nicely.
Do you imagine that psychics like Maggie can actually exist?
Completely! Why not? I’m at the very least clever sufficient to know the way little I do know.
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