Someone just pulled a “Katherine Heigl” — It isn’t everyday you hear a star rip their own show, but Big Love actress Chloe Sevigny did just that during a recent interview with The AV Club.
Sevigny, who stars as Nicolette Grant on the HBO polygamist drama, was disappointed with the storylines on the fourth season of Big Love, which wrapped up earlier this month. The star is vocal with her displeasure and believes that the show has become too “far-fetched” for its own good.
“It was awful this season, as far as I’m concerned,” Sevigny retorted. “I’m not allowed to say that! [Gasps.] It was very telenovela. I feel like it kind of got away from itself. The whole political campaign seemed to me very farfetched. I mean, I love the show, I love my character, I love the writing, but I felt like they were really pushing it this last season. And with nine episodes, I think they were just squishing too much in,” she explained. “HBO only gave us nine Sundays, because they have so much other original programming—especially with The Pacific—and they only have a certain amount of Sundays per year, so we only got nine Sundays. I think that they had more story than episodes. I think that’s what happened.”
Sevigny also revealed that the cast members only receive scripts an episode at a time: “We never know what’s going to happen in the next episode until we’re almost finished shooting the one we’re shooting at present. Me and the girls [Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ginnifer Goodwin] definitely were not very happy with where it was going – or more like, ‘We really hope it’s going to work. It seems like they’re really pushing it’.”
Big Love has been renewed for fifth season on HBO, and Chloe can only hope that fans will continue to tune in when the show returns in the fall.
“… I hope the fans will stick with us and tune in next year. There’s a lot of people who really love this season, surprisingly. God, I’m going to get in so much trouble.”