#acting-comeback

#acting-comeback

I didn't even know that I could do it, Simpson told ETonline during the show's premiere. I haven't acted in so long and normally I play the ditzy blonde, but this time I come in very vulnerable. It's very emotional. I didn't know I could cry on cue, and somehow I did it, she continued. So, I impressed myself. And then I go, bat st crazy. You're gonna see a brand new side of me.

Saying yes to Witch (see Linda Ferguson's ArtsWatch review here) meant committing to a production calendar that would spirit cast and crew from first table read to opening night in less than a month, a process that Modica-Soloway calls "a beautiful, hard, lovely, gratitude-filled lift." With it came the opportunity for her to slip into the skin of the gruff, acerbic Elizabeth, whom she describes as "a Character, capital C."