Former āSuitsā star Abigail Spencer has opened up about what sheās been doing during lockdown, and like many of us, it involves video calls, binge watching television and some solid self-reflection.
The 38-year-old āReprisalā actress and good friend of Meghan Markle said the coronavirus pandemic has forced people to āpause and do whatever we can to keep each other safeā, while remaining connected with close ones.
āIām so lucky Iām so close with my friends,ā the LA-based star told HuffPost Australia.
āItās nice to be in regular touch, the Zoom meetings... I actually just before this [interview] had a Zoom birthday dance party for a really good friend of mine, so those are increasing,ā she laughed.
Covid-19 cases in the US have been increasing, and Abigail said social distancing is very important.
āItās an interesting time, itās an important time for all of us to take it seriously and to be at home,ā she said, āand take this collective pause and do whatever we can to keep each other safe.
āIt feels so collected like this connected tissue and yet weāre more isolated than ever, and yet I feel weāre all having this shared experience of sorts.ā
This week her latest show āReprisalā is hitting Australian screens, perhaps serving as the perfect self-isolation viewing, she suggested.
Making a big departure from her āSuitsā and āTimelessā characters, she plays Doris, a woman seeking revenge against her brother and his gang.
āIām blonde on the show, I donāt look like me or sound like me. It was a little bit more of a physical process finding the character and then putting her on and taking her off every day,ā she said.
As for her characterās intentions, she added, āDoris is a creation, she was basically left for dead by these evil men in her life.
āShe was standing up to them in their small, little world and instead of listening to her, they tried to take her down but she didnāt die. And so years later where the story picks up is she decides to take back what was taken from her.ā
While she may be binge watching her own favourite shows like Zoe Kravitzās āHigh Fidelityā, Abigail said sheās also tried to decrease the amount of time sheās staring at a screen.
āI think too itās a lot of screen time and I have an 11-year-old son so for me, itās making sure I still disconnect,ā she said. āEven though weāre not going places, thereās still a lot of screen time, a lot of looking at screens so I think itās important to turn them off for parts of the day as well.ā
Reprisal premieres at 8:30pm Wednesday 22 April on SBS and SBS On Demand.