Chloe Sevigny has given one of my favorite TV performances in years as manipulative Mormon Nikki Grant on HBO's Big Love, and I was so glad to see her win a Golden Globe for the role this past year. I also found it totally refreshing to hear her diss season 4 of Big Love in an AV Club interview. Sure, it was disappointing to hear the season is apparently less than stellar (given that I haven't seen it yet and was waiting for dvd), but the fact that she would be honest about her feelings on it was impressive. She actually called the season "awful" and said it was "very telenovella."But...then there was a big uproar, and she backpeddled while insulting the interviewer in the process:
What happened? Why’d you say it?
SEVIGNY: [Long pause] I feel like what I said was taken out of context, and the [reporter] I was speaking to was provoking me. I was in Austin [at the SXSW festival] and really exhausted and doing a press junket and I think I just… I wasn’t thinking about what I was saying. You know, after a day of junkets sometimes things slip out that you don’t mean, and I obviously didn’t mean what I said in any way, shape, or form.
I'm sure HBO pressured her to apologize--nay, take it back entirely--but that is still not cool. I guess you're just not a celebrity until you've done something stupid, then blamed it on "exhaustion." AV Club interviewer Sean O'Neal's rebuttal is pretty awesome, though, so he still wins the round. He even includes a very damning audio clip at the end of the article and says:
You were caught biting the hand that feeds you Golden Globes; probably best to blame your momentary lapse into candor on everything that’s beyond your control, such as exhaustion and the rigors of doing press junkets. But as the person who conducted said interview, I’m not really sure how a statement like “It was awful this season” can possibly be taken out of context.
HBO...they really do know drama.
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