Maggie Gyllenhaal on the Complicated Character That Won Her a Golden Globe
In an interview with TIME in 2014, Maggie Gyllenhaal described the things she had learned from playing Nessa, "the complicated woman" role that won her a 2015 Golden Globe on Sunday night. Gyllenhaal took home the award for best actress in a mini-series for The Honourable Woman, drawing attention to her complex character and those of her fellow nominees. "When I look around the room at the women who are in here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not," she said in her acceptance speech. "Sometimes sexy, sometimes not. Sometimes honorable, sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film.", Below, see how she explained her flawed character to TIME.