Fancast Chats with Rutina Wesley
Fancast has another terrific interview, this time with Rutina Wesley who discusses Tara’s emotional growth in season two, preparing for nude scenes, and how her family would react if she were dating a vampire.
Tara’s storyline is really branching out this season in terms of her personal growth and independence. Are you happy with the direction she’s headed in? Of course. I was like ‘really? Wow!’ That’s an actor’s dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on. Alan [Ball] and the creative team have done that for all of the characters this season. They’ve really given us something to sink our teeth into. It just allows me to use everything I’ve learned at school. It’s fun.
What are some of the biggest obstacles you see her trying to overcome this season? I think she’s learning how to not be so sensitive. She may or may not fall in love, so she might have to deal with romance. I just see her being able to relax. You can see her being taken care of for the first time in a sort of motherly way, and that’s beautiful for her. All of last season was her taking care of someone else and then totally self destructing. So now we see her sort of bloom out of that. And then of course….drama! [laughs]
