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Don't Expect Batwoman's Villain Alice To Be The Joker Of The Arrow-verse
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Acknowledging that her villain Alice will inevitably get lots of comparisons to The Joker, I asked Skarsten whether she avoided or embraced that when prepping for the role.
”I mean, no one can fill the shoes of the people who have played Joker before me. That's insane. It would be crazy to try. And I always think that while imitation is the greatest form of flattery, I can flatter them in other ways. I wanted to create something that was my own. I will never be able to play The Joker the way those people did, but I can play Alice the way I play her, you know? So yes, of course you look to those characters because Alice is to Batwoman what Joker is to Batman. But no, beyond that, I've sort of tried to create my own thing.”
Speaking to Alice bringing an unpredictable and wild nature to Batwoman, I asked Rachel Skarsten how she got into the character's semi-psychotic mindset.
“Well, my family would argue that I just naturally come by that state. [Laughs.] But I've had to sit with Alice more than other characters. I think any time as an actor, you want to, even if it's the smallest part, draw off of your own experience or personality, and then you personify that for that specific character. But Alice, she in a way inhabits so many different characters, because she goes from being totally normal to completely crazy to very vulnerable to like super-angry, and does it all within one paragraph of dialogue. So I've had to tinker with and play with the scenes more, to kind of land on...it's almost like choreographing a dance with myself. That's been actually really fun, because you always want a new challenge as an actor. And I come back to this universe that I know so well, but have been presented with like totally new challenges. So it's interesting.“
During Batwoman's panel at the TCA press event, Rachel was asked about balancing "the crazy" when playing Alice. Here's the actress' gracious answer:
“First and foremost, let me just say it is so much fun to play a character that you can really make a meal out of, and all of the writers give me such sort of wonderful, brilliant, crazy, off-the-wall things to say. And one minute she’s making perfect sense, and then she’s quoting Alice in Wonderland, and then she’s throwing someone off a building. And so that’s been so much fun to do. But I think the best crazy is one that's also grounded in a really solid reality. I think it makes the crazy part even more crazy when you have someone that you’re talking to, and they’re so incredibly normal and then, boom, they switch on a dime. To me, it’s very concerning and crazy. So I’m trying to do that with Alice. But at the same time, sometimes it’s just really fun to go totally bonkers.”
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Such an important message. Be your own psychopath. 
Last edited by scififan2009; 09-11-2019 at 08:14 AM
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