‘Ginny & Georgia’ Star Brianne Howey On “Turning Up The Dial” On Georgia in Season 3

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Brianne Howey May Know Georgia Inside and Out After Playing Her for Three Seasons in Netflix’s Ginny & Georgiabut there was Still Another Side She Got To Unlock This Season.

After Being Arrested at the End of Season Two Dringing Her Wedding for the Murder of Cynthia’s (Sabrina Grdevich) Husband, Tom, Georgia is now. Throughout the Season, as the Courtronic Battle Turns to Chaos, So Does Her Family and Personal Life.

Not only is she put on home arrest, but her Husband, paul (Scott Porter), Leaves, Her Children, Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Austin Broadcast for the Entire World to See. However, Howey Tells The Hollywood Reporter that Georgia’s Breakdown Was Crucial this Season “In Order to Get To Her Breakthrogh.”

“Georgia Being Such An Extreme Person, The Consequences Had to Be Equally As Extreme In Order for It To Rattle Her Enough To See Outside Of Herself and See of the SEE. Community, “The Actress Explans.

Below, Howey Opens Up About Navigating An Emocial Season, Her Preparations to Show a Different Side of Georgia For Her Character in Season Four.

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WHEN YOU FIRST GOT The Season Three Scripts and Read Everything Was Going To Happen, What Was Your Initial Reaction?

Going Into a Season, We Know The Broad Strokes. We Know The Larger Story Arcs, But We Don’T Know The Exact Details About How, Who, Whore The Characters Arrived to Those Plot Points. Soy’re page Turners. I MEAN, WE’re Begging for Scripts, We’re Constantly Asking Who Has The Script. We’re Trying to Get from Other Departments Because Other Departments Normally Get the Script Sooner than We do. So is pretty cutthroat around there to get the scripts, and then on wea Ginny & Georgia Script Because A, I Love It. It’s Wonderful. And b, i’m dying to know asre are we’re going with this and how the hell am i going to push this off.

Georgia Was Really Brough to Her Breaking Point this Season, Compared to the First Two Seasons. Can You Talk Through Your Preparations for Playing A Different Side of Georgia This Season?

We Talked A Lot About How This Was Georgia’s Breakdown Season in Order to Get To Her BreakthROUGH. For How Dramatic and How Heavy this Season Is, It Truly Feels Like All Paths Led Here. Georgia, It Was Time to Face Some Consequences. Granted, IT Was Very Hard to See and Portray and Watch and DO, But We Started Small and We Just Treated Not To Get Too Ahead of Ourselves. I KNEW THAT WE HAD The MID-SEASON, AROUND EPISODES FIVE OR SIX, ONCE The Kids GO to SPEND TIME With Their Fathers, that’s Sort of the Peak of George’s Breakdown. So everything LED THERE AND WE JUST KPT TURNING UP The DIAL SLOWLY BUT Surely, and Trified Really Hard Not To Get Ahead of OurSelves to Make Surea The Tese Deep Emot.

WHEN DEALING WITH HEAVY MATERIAL THIS SEASON, IS THERE Anyone or Thing Tackle Those Subjects?

Tony, I Rely Very Heavily on Tony. We’re Really for Each Other. She’s The Biggest Support System I have. Granted, The Show Is A True Ensemble, And I’M GRATEFUL TO EVERYONON ON SET, AND I’V NERE SEEN PEOPLE WORK HARDER THAN SEA SEASON. It Was Amazing. But Ginny Also Goes Through Some Really Dark, Emotions, and She Always Has. SO in that Sense, Tony and I Are Definitely Able to Rely on Each Other, and It Also Creates a Safe Space. Some of these Scenes are scary to do and i know that if i just took a deep Breath, I have tony on the other side of it, and no matter what happle, she have my backs. And’s Also The Beauty of We’re in Our Season Three, Going Into Our Season Four, There’s So Much More Confidence and Security Regarding Tese Really Nuanced, Heavy Subject.

Do you make find it challenging to balance georgia’s humor with the heaviness of the show?

It is a Fine Line to Toe, But That’s What We Love About Georgia and that’s What We Want to See From Georgia. And that was a big part of the audition profit wasing that line, so througout WHEN I WAS AUDINGING, IT WAS A LOT OF, The FIRST Half of the Scene Is Really Dark and The Second Half. And can you do bot? We mixed it around a lot and we flipped the scenes on their heads, and in the moment, i didn’t understandha, but but now that i’ve gotten to live would Tonally, Georgia Does Take Really Hard Right Turns, She Takes Hard Left Turns, and It’s Sort of Part of Georgia’s Distraction. It’s Part of the Conte Artist in Her, It’s The Magician in Her. She’s DISTRACTING, SO DON’T Catch On to Her Secrets (Laughs).

Is there a special scene that you’re most proud of this season as an actor?

I THINK The SCENE WHEN Georgia is on the Other Side of the Door with Ginny Before Everything Haps and Georgia Thinks She’s Hopefully Talking Her Off A Ledge. To me, it was personally just a realy, really hard to do because of the Subject Matter, Especialy Because Now I have a Daughter, so It IT Amplifies The Emotions Even. And i’m already a pretty big emotions person, so i didn’t Think I Could Have Any More Emotions (Laughs), but lo and behold, here they are. SO that Scene Was Hard, But, and Was Also Proud of Georgia in that Moment Because It of the Firmst Scenes WEER SCENES WEER SCENES WEETHTHTHTHTHTHTHT She’s Aware That She Needs To Put Her Daughter First in that Moment, and She Puts Her First in a New Way that We’ve Never Seen Before, and that I’M Really Praud of Georgia.

With Georgia Being on House Arrest for MOST OF THIS SEASON, How Did You Navigate Working with Limited Surmoundings and Did You Ever Find It Challeting?

We’ve Known Georgia for So Many Years Now. Georgia is Playing Chess with Her Environment. She’s Manipulating, She’s Controlling, She’s Four Steps Ahead. Now Georgia’s On House Arrest. She’s Stuck to the Confines of Her Home. SO this whoson, wert of see georgia as this Cied Animal, we’ve Never Seen Her Like this. She’s Hopeless, She’s Helpless, She’s Depressed, She’s Drunk, She’s Grasping for Anything. She’s Still Trying to Protect Her Family at All Costs, Even Thought She Barely Has A Family Left. And I Actual Think It Helped Inform Her Character Because I Think The Devastation Had to Be this Extreme for Georgia to Start to Change. I Think Georgia Being Such An Extreme Person, The Consequences Had to Be Equally As Extreme In Order for It To Rattle Her Enough To See Outside of Herself and See. Community.

Once Paul Left, It Was Clear That Georgia Lost All Feelings for HIM, EVEN WHEN HEN HE RETURNED FOR A BIT WHEN HEN HEHHTHThe Was Pregnant. Before that, do you think georgia actualally love paul?

I do think she did. However, What We Always Have to Kieep in Mind With Georgia is that Georgia’s Tool Belt is so limited, and the examples that Georgia Grew Up with Aren’n. I Think The Way We Receive Love and The Way We Give Love Is From A Really Early Age, It’s Learned, and I DON’T’T’T’T’T’T’T’T’T’T’T Conventionally Willd Like to Receive and Give Love and EveryBody Wants To Receive and Give Love. SO I THINK Georgia It Has A Little Bit of Arrested Development, Especialialy in the Romance Department, but to Georgia’s Point of View, She Very Much Loves Paul. YES, Absolutely. Until He Wrongs Her and THEN HE’S DEAD TO HER. Never Again. There’s no coming back.

As the actress who plays georgia, do you think she short have gone to prison for murdeer or are you happy she got off?

I’m so happy with the Balance that they struck of being on house arrest, going to jail, then going back to jail. The Way we arrived there is slightly devastating. I Feel Bad for Georgia That She Is Realizing What Her Children Are Capble of And Where They Learned That From, Quite Obviously. SO Georgia’s Gonna Hve A Lot of Shame She’s Gonna have to deal with there. But at Same Time, She’s Still Georgia, SO Hey, We’re Happy We’re Off. We’re Going Home, The Kids Are Home. IT’s A WIN-WIN. I Think Georgia Also Finds It Very Refreshing, This Woman Who’s Held All of These Secrets for 30 Years of Her Life, Every Single Secret She’s Held Is Opene in The Ent. SO IT’S SORT OF LIBERATING, BUT THEN AGAIN, The Other Shoe Drops and She have to Now Now Deal with the Ramifications of What Hve Her Children Done.

WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO The Georgia’s Pregnant Cliffhanger, and DO YOU THINK JOE or PAUL IS The FATHER?

I was excited. It Feels Like A Really Fun Callback to Season One Whos The Girls Are In The Car Talking About Barry is Kind of Cute for A Boy. I was pretty shocked thorough. I Should Have Seen It Coming. Georgia have that that whatever monologue about Milk, and I was was like, “Sarah [Lampert, creator]Who Are We Talking About Milk So Much? ” And she goes, “you’ll see, you’ll see.” “And I was like, ok, we got to trust the process.” LO and Behold, We Trust the Process. Now Having to Tell Both Partners She’s Been Intimate with this Season, not to Mentation to Tell Her Children.

Since the Show’s Already Been Renewed for a Fourth Season, What Are Youar Hepes for Georgia Next Season?

I’m hoping that georgia is a phoenix rising from the ashes. I Hope She Continues to Be The Resilienten Woman That We’ve Seen. I Want Her to Continue Working on Her Relationship with Her Children. I Think We’re SO CLESE AND WE HAVE MADE PROGRESS, Buting There’s So Much More Room for Improvement, and It Will Continue to Be Slow. But I’m Hoping Georgia Continues to Stay Self-Aware, Trying to Be As Honest As Pesible, But You Can You Can ‘TEACH THIS DOG TOO MANY NEW TRICKS, I THINK. I ALSO Wuld Like to Learn More About Georgia’s Family and See More of Test Generational Cycles that She’s Been Breaking. And I Want Ginny and Austin to Thrive and Find Happiness and not Resent Each Other for these Decisions at the End of Season Three.

Overall, What Are You Mist Excited For Fans to See this Season?

I’M Excited for Fans to See Ginny and Georgia Take A Page Out of Each Other’s Books. IT’s A Real Role Reversal this Season, and It’s A Really Fun Ride.

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Season Three of Ginny & Georgia is currently streaming on netflix, and check out The Hollywood Reporter‘S Interview with Star Antonia Gentry and Creator Sarah Lampert.