In a recent interview, Maggie Siff offered some interesting details about where her character is headed after Tara’s hand was crushed by the van door.
“…She’s the one I think a lot of the audience identifies with as the most normal, least outlaw character. I really want people to believe that this character is going to go the places Kurt (Sutter) wants her to go to. For me it was like, “How do I make this as truly devastating as it would be to the extent that it could crack something in this person that doesn’t necessarily come back together again?” Kurt said to me, “Something had to have happened to Gemma to make her Gemma, and this is the thing that’s going to make Tara the Tara we see her become” — and honestly I don’t exactly know what that is. I’m not inside his head, but he has something in mind. As we worked on the end of this season he was laying the foundation for that.”
She also talked about how the hand injury will really force her into being more loyal to SAMCRO, even though her boss does present her with a job opportunity in this week’s episode.
“I think for Kurt that was kind of the nail in the coffin, the thing that really pushes her over the edge,” she said. “Wendy (Drea de Matteo) comes and sort of threatens to take away one of the remaining things Tara feels like she has. [Tara even says] “Oh, you thought now would be a good time?”
To read the entire interview, check out TVLine.com
