Weeds star Mary Louise Parker is here at Comic Con promoting the Showtime series, which returns for its sixth season on August 16th. We had the opportunity to speak with her about what’s to come for the series and her character Nancy Botwin.
Parker wasn’t shy in expressing her disappointment in the series’ fifth, but she did sound optimistic about Season 6, stating, “Last season, to me, was kind of boring, but this season to me is much more interesting and funnier.” She went on to say that the eighth episode of the upcoming season is a good one and that the second episode is one of her favorite episodes ever. So there’s that to look forward to!
As for that little incident with Shane in the final minute of last season’s finale, Parker didn’t offer any major spoilers there but she did confirm that we won’t have to wait long to find out what she does to handle the situation. “You discover that pretty early on,” She said. “That’s pretty clever, how the writers deal with that.”
And speaking of season finales, sure, it’s a bit early to be talking about how the sixth season’s going to end but apparently, something shocking is coming. “I just read the season finale yesterday, and I was like… Ok! Well, alright. So that’s good. I still, honestly am kind of recovering from it. It’s kind of intense. “
Given how scattered everyone seemed in the previous season, I asked her if we’d see the Botwins a bit more rooted in Season Six. Parker stated that there was no rooting going on for the family, so if you were hoping to see them return to suburbia and settle down in one of those little boxes, it doesn’t seem like it’s in the cards anytime soon.
Finally, Parker didn’t seem all that interested in having her character be more sympathetic. “I never really thought about sympathy when I play a character. I feel like when you do that, you kind of rob the character of their flaws and the flaws are what make someone human and that’s what makes someone interesting.”
Well, interesting is definitely a word to describe Nancy Botwin!
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