As for the Sackler part of it, I’d actually heard about it on the radio, [a segment] about the activists that were going into [The Metropolitan Museum of Art] and throwing out prescription papers and bottles, trying to shut down the Sackler Wing. I hadn’t realized that a private family owned Purdue and was behind OxyContin. That’s why interviews like this make me happy because I know it continues to spread the word in a really critical way.
[Creator] Danny Strong was the biggest resource because he’s [interviewed so many people], including some of the people that my character was based on. Some folks didn’t want to be a part of the project, vehemently so, because they were so burned by [the opioid crisis], which I thought was very telling. I felt like my character, being a composite of multiple people, was representing something very specific that was even kind of at odds within the DEA.
The failed war on drugs specifically targeted Black and brown communities, to ostracize and demonize them as the culprit when, again, it was unbridled, unregulated capitalism. I mean, the DEA was created because of that. It was a policy and narrative that completely shifted how our government works, how so many different ways our society is balanced and the systemic problems that exist within it as it was created. We never really get a chance to look at it from this perspective.
When I first encountered the relationship narrative in Bridget’s storyline, there was definitely a part of me that was [worried she’d be a stereotype]: the tough, working woman with the family that’s falling apart because she’s not paying attention [to her husband]. But it got so much richer than I could have imagined — so many people have a personal stake in this crisis without [having ever taking OxyContin]. It was important to be able to embody that.
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