‘s finale would play out? What was your first impression when you did?: They started writing [the final season] back in 2020 because we were due to go back to Season 3 when the pandemic hit, and when we couldn’t go back to set, the writers went back. So, some of the arc of the season was pitched to me back in 2020, including the time jump, which I loved, because I just felt like, “Oh, that’s going to open us up to so many possibilities.
Then, in the shooting of it, it just felt so lovely and so right, and I felt like, here’s this actress we met all these seasons ago who wanted to be a star, who wanted an Oscar, who had this kind of myopic narcissism. And we leave her in a place of, she’s working in a small town, she’s doing a high school production of. And the joy of that is so real for her that it may as well be an Oscar in that passenger seat, for what those flowers represent. I just loved that.
I think that after that moment, she’s changed. And I don’t think she’s become a saint. I don’t think that she’s necessarily making all the best life choices going forward, but I think that something in her has changed, and for the better. And she is not a bad person at that point. She is making better decisions that are about other humans, including her son.