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Katey: I think it's fantastic, and I think that's definitely true. We have network television; I'm a big fan of that, too. I've made a very good living and career on network television. I think that it's going through some kind of transition. It's just a looser creative reign on cable. You're more like the independent film morals. You're allowed to do more outside-the-box kind of things. It's not a formula.
For someone like me that was really looking to do something different, I sort of felt that what I'd done I've done for a long time and I've been pretty successful at it. I wanted to find a different thing to do, and cable has definitely provided that. I think for women it's just opened up a lot of doors.
Nads: What do you think of Ron's character? Do you think Clay is more of a father figure for Jax or more of a partner on the gang?
Katey: I think he's a little of both. He's his stepdad, and he came into his life when Jax was about 15, 16 years old. That's an interesting relationship. I think that he's fatherly, but he's also brotherly. It's both; I guess that's the answer.
Nads: Could you talk about any difference for you as an actor in appearing for an hour-long drama as opposed to a half-hour comedy?
Katey: There are a lot of differences. It's a serialized show, the nature of it, in that you're dealing with 12 episodes and there's an arch for all the characters. The work that I did for this part was a lot of back story and history, sort of figuring out where these people came from and how they end up in a motorcycle club. For just me individually, I needed to understand all that back story and all that history, so I did a lot of exploration and imagination, figuring that out. My husband is really good and sort of builds that whole world for himself and to write from, so he was a good source for that material. When you're doing comedy, a sitcom, it doesn't require quite the same depth of work, I'd say.
Nads: Ron, were you surprised with all the violence on the show?
Ron: I'm not surprised by the level of violence in the show. I knew these were pretty ruthless, rough guys, but there are certain things that we're doing that shock even me, and I thought I was shockproof. It's pretty hardcore. I mean, you start getting to the third episode, the fourth episode, the fifth episode, I mean, we do stuff that is like--I finished reading it and I was just like, I've got to lie down. It's definitely--the envelope is being breached.
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