Interview: Ginnifer Goodwin
HBO: It was a long process shooting the first season of this series.
Ginnifer: We've been working on it for two years. I think it's probably a really good thing that after the pilot we had so much time to sit and think and explore on our own. So when I go to work, it's about telling the story of the episode and not necessarily the marriage. --ah good that was my concern-- want to see episodes as stories, not as all about the backdrop ('the concept'?). 6fu had the dgdj (death at the beginning, and then the preparing and having funeral) that shaped each episode.
What's interesting, too, is that I had gone off and made a big movie and was involved in other things, so while I was thinking about Margene, I think I also changed a lot as an actress — as happens every year. The Margene I had started with was not the Margene I came back with. I made very different decisions as to what I wanted this character to be like.
HBO: You mentioned doing the big movie; have you noticed your life has changed since Walk the Line?
[so she made Walk the Line between shooting Big Love season 1 and now? and so they are shooting a second season? (at HBO is there less waiting to see whether the show does well enough to continue?) ]

Interview: Jeanne Tripplehorn Finding Barb
HBO: Can you give us an introduction to your character Barb?
Jeanne: Hmm. I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it. She's so generous and beautiful in spirit that as she prepares for the possibility of her death, she wants her husband and children taken care of. ah. hadnt tht of that.
...there is a growing movement of progressive polygamists that are spiritual people., who see values in a group marriage. ..I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do. [Chuckling] You know what I mean? She didn't have to compromise every day, and certainly marriage is about compromise.
HBO: Tell us a little about working with Chloë and Ginnifer.
Jeanne: The three of us acting was [was?] truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly.
HBO: Do you take a mentor role to the other two?
Jeanne: Oh no. No, those two are firecrackers. I'm quite inspired by them. No, not at all.
HBO: This is your first television series. Was it hard making the adjustment?
Jeanne: It was difficult every ten days having a new director. [right, that is an interesting difference. is varying directors the s.o.p. generally, not just on HBO?] I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears. But in terms of the quality and the attention to detail, it feels like a movie set. And [the show creators] Mark and Will, they're just so inventive and original and creative, it is just the greatest working environment.
HBO: So you can imagine playing Barb six years from now?
Jeanne: I've finally found Barb so I'm really looking forward to getting picked up. [hmm.] When we were filming the pilot, this was just a dream, you know. We all got along and we were just... taken along by this creative spirit. We just got in there and played. And now it's finally starting to feel real. I would love to be with these people for six years. cool.