That resonance wouldn’t work if the human characters inMrs.
Davisdidn’t feel real.
After all, nuns don’t just linger in movies likeThe Conjuring 2or reissues ofThe Sound of Music.
Betty Gilpin as the nun Simone in ‘Mrs. Davis.'.Sophie Kohler/PEACOCK
There are still women today who take the vows and live in convents much to the surprise of otherMrs.
Davischaracters, who constantly ask Simone if her habit and wimple is some kind of Halloween costume.
so that make Simone’s responses authentic, Gilpin sought out some of those real-life nuns.
“They were also three very different women.
Chris Diamantopoulos, who plays anti-AI resistance leader JQ onMrs.
In an interview with EW, Diamantopoulos compares Gilpin’s lead performance inMrs.
Davisto an unholy fusion ofMeryl Streep,Harrison Ford, and Daffy Duck.
“She’s so unbelievably fearless,” Diamantopoulos tells EW.
It’s like Betty Gilpin has stepped outside of the building and she’s fully Simone.
That speaks to Gilpin’s experience on past shows, likeGLOW, more than her conversations with the nuns.
She also says she didn’t ask the nuns for their thoughts on artificial intelligence.
They just had one question for her in return.
“They were like, ‘How can we watch the show?'”
“I was like, ‘Well, it’s on Peacock.
Do you guys have Peacock?’
They were like, ‘Oh, we don’t have streaming.’
Okay, well, that’s fine.”
Davisnow, with subsequent installments arriving weekly through May 18.
