It was not so much the heinous things she does it was that at her core, her motivation is her children, is her child. He hadn't been around that kind of energy quite so much, so I think that's what was the springboard for Gemma. "If you asked him, what he would tell you probably is when he came into my life, I already had two children, and he's their stepparent, and I was very protective of my children. But he did write it with me in mind, and then we were hoping the network would sign off on that. And I didn't really know what it was until I actually read the script. And so he came to me as he was writing it, and said 'I think I have a part for you,' but he didn't really tell me what it was. And he thought it would be a good television series, and so he wrote this world which sort of had a Hamlet arc about it, and there was definitely the mother of our Hamlet. "His idea came from meeting with our other executive producers who had wanted to do a movie in this arena. On her husband, Kurt Sutter, writing Gemma with her in mind The sixth season of Sons of Anarchy premieres on Tuesday. Sagal has a new album coming out in October. I just never thought I would be able to do it!" "I got the gig as a singer and then I had to dance like in high heels and in a mermaid fin, and all these kind of crazy things. Sagal is also a singer-songwriter before becoming an actress, she briefly sang backup for Bob Dylan and performed for a while with Bette Midler as a Harlette. "I think she pulls a lot of the strings behind the scenes, and she is privy to all the goings-on." "She's the queen of the organization, so guys in the club are respectful of her - she's sort of like their surrogate mother in a way," Sagal tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Instead, she based Gemma on a variety of regal political figures. "It's a very misogynistic culture and I say that with all due respect," Sagal says. According to the actress - who's best-known for playing the red-haired, sharp-tongued Peg Bundy in Married With Children - Gemma's character is not based on any real person in the biker culture, partly because it was so hard to find research on the subculture's women. Sagal won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Gemma in 2011. "She does things in the name of loyalty, which I relate to, but she goes way beyond anything I would do." It's all part of the challenge of playing the character, Sagal says. 31, 2012.Īs Gemma, the fierce matriarch of the biker gang in the FX series Sons of Anarchy, Katey Sagal has shot and killed people, hit somebody with a skateboard, pulled a gun on a baby and done other horrible things. This interview was originally broadcast on Oct. Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow in Sons of Anarachy on FX.
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