Betty Gilpin tells Salon about why she loves acting in roles that ask her to do the most. “It's like the ultimate acting cat toy, and it's the jobs that ask you to do 5% that are the ones that you lose sleep over,” she said. Gilpin talks her new genre-bending series “Mrs. Davis” and the “GLOW” and “Nurse Jackie” writers that changed the trajectory of her career. Plus, she shares how she navigates parenting in the digital age.

00:00 Introduction
00:48 The genre-bending "Mrs. Davis"
05:18 AI and Peacock’s "Mrs. Davis"
08:29 "GLOW" writers changed Gilpin's career
11:42 How Gilpin’s acting parents influenced her
13:21 Gilpin on her daughter and social media
15:54 Bringing "Three Women" by Lisa Taddeo to TV

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