The Effie that you saw on screen, there was actually some CGI at play there, because what we found was that the initial Effie disguise was so good that she almost stuck out within this Victorian society. How did you guys pull off that on-screen disguise so that fans wouldn’t piece together that you were playing the character Effie?
And that was the joy of piecing together the puzzle that is Sarah/Maladie/Effie. So there’s the three of them always there, only one will come out at certain times. That weak housewife, who Maladie hated so much. And also at the same time, there’s the element of Sarah living in Maladie. She reveled playing that game so close to the establishment, so close to Frank Mundi and the people who were actually out to get her. And I guess putting Maladie together, the challenge was because, within Maladie, there’s always a want to become like a socialite, a higher class woman in Victorian London. And so when Effie came around, it was joy. So it was great to put everything together because I realized that Maladie was always one step ahead of the game, always one step ahead of everybody else in the show, and probably one of the only honest characters within the show, too. So we very much lived script to script, rather than us having a backlog of six scripts to entertain us. And in that sense, I think they make her mad… Maladie knows what she’s saying, but I don’t think a lot of other people really follow what she’s saying.Īnd then with regards to Effie, that came out of the blue, I guess, when we got scripts through. And she enters the asylum and she’s with these women spouting this information, but nobody’s there to listen to her. She sees a spark in the sky and she doesn’t know what it is. Was she already insane before she entered the asylum? Or was it her husband maybe poisoning her with mercury just to put her into the asylum for a while? So in that sense, all these questions kind of were answered, because I think by the time she gets into the asylum, she thinks that she’s seen God. So it was about myself building a backstory. And the gift was that you saw Sarah, who was Maladie before Maladie, pre-asylum. TheWrap: How early on did you know that you would be playing Maladie/Sarah and Effie Boyle?Īmy Manson: When I first got the role of Maladie, I understood that there was a huge backstory that I had to undertake and I had to understand why she behaves the way she behaves. And while Mundi was figuring this out, viewers watched Maladie laugh as she striped off her Effie costume in the madness around her on the streets. These clues led Mundi to conclude the truth and write in “Effie Boyle” as the name of his Jane Doe. He then started to remember comments Effie made about the body in the photo wearing a stylish coat similar to hers and her impassioned op-ed declaring the injustice of Maladie’s hanging.
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Mundi went back to his office to inspect the photos of the unidentified dead body that he found in the series premiere.
That reveal came “Usual Suspects”-style, when Mundi became confused by the missing toes on the feet of the hanged “Maladie” during the chaos that had ensued when Maladie’s plan to electrocute the onlookers at her hanging was set in motion just after her death. So that means Maladie has been impersonating Effie ever since just before Clara, disguised as Maladie, was arrested by Detective Frank Mundi (Ben Chaplin) on last week’s episode. Well, we thought Maladie was hanged - but we now know that woman was actually her missing-toed acolyte Clara (Sylvie Briggs). Yes, the HBO fantasy series created by Joss Whedon pulled a fast one on viewers with tonight’s hour, titled “Hanged.” It ended with journalist Effie Boyle peeling off a wig, makeup and a body suit to reveal Maladie, just minutes after Maladie was hanged in the center of Victorian London.
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