GD: Is she in the book, your character, Mathilde? It was kind of this scary, exciting time of exploration and battle and it wasn’t a hard decision, actually, to make actually to join it. I’ve never seen a television show that was going to cover this kind of thing. I don’t know this character in television. I want to be a part of it so much.” And she was just like a woman that I’ve never seen anyone like her. And then when I heard that Elwood and Scott Rudin were doing this, I was like, “OK, I’m begging. It’s based on a beautiful Annie Proulx book, which people may know her work from “Brokeback Mountain” or “Shipping News.” I love her writing and I was already reading the book and I loved it.
It was a time that I know nothing about, a situation that I know very little about, which was the moment when people were coming from France to New France, which is in Quebec, in Canada, and trying to occupy it and they were fighting the English and the Hudson’s Bay Company and the native people there as well, the Iroquois, the Wyandots and they were all just fighting against each other for control of his land.
Marcia Gay Harden: Well, first of all, I’m a working mom, so it doesn’t matter how long I’ve been working.
