Maisie Klompus Recalls Working on ‘Good Trouble’ & Teases Upcoming ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Role

Actress Maisie Klompus knows something about developing a character. Playing Rachel Boyle on Freeform’s Good Trouble for five seasons she spent some time getting to know the character and how playing someone for so long is beneficial to her craft.

“Well, I mean, what’s so fun about a role like this, so I got hired as a co-star and as a co-star with the potential to recur and then ended up doing five episodes in the first season and then they liked us, they liked the [bulk] beauty girls and we’re called the Fight Club Girls, on all of the memos and stuff. And so then they bumped us up to guest stars and what’s really lovely about having a character that kind of starts small and grows is as the writers get to know you as a person, they kind of see where the character and where you meet and they kind of explore that and that was really fun,” Maisie told Glambergirlblog.

She added, “So it is really a collaboration, it’s like as the writers get to know you, they write more for you in your voice, which is wild. And then as an actor, it is really wonderful being able to live in the same person’s world for years. And yeah, there’d be certain things that we would call back to multiple times and just like Rachel is very snoopy, she likes to be in other people’s business, she likes to watch from afar and so that’s something that’s really fun and that informs the character. It was just a really free space to play and yeah, it was really wonderful.”

Maisie later shared how her theater background helped shape working on screen. “Yeah, well, I mean, they’re very different beasts. They’re very different. So what’s really wonderful about theater and super helpful is when you do theater, there’s no, you can’t do a new take. Like you start, you go through the whole thing chronologically and you are in it and there are people who are there breathing the same air as you in the same space. You are sharing the same energy and the same vitality through this journey. It’s you and the audience together and you’re like a team. And obviously film is very different from that. It’s the same two-page scene takes five hours and there are eight different shot camera angles and some of it you’re on camera, some of it you’re not. And each one you’re doing at least two or three takes and so it’s a lot. But having the basis of theater and just being really clear on intention and your purpose in the scene is really helpful for film.”

Although Maisie couldn’t say much about her upcoming role on the third season of Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer, she teased how much fun she was having and how the type of character she’s playing is usually catered towards a man.

Watch the full interview with Maisie Klompus below.

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