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Her portrayal brings eerie power to the dowdy Iris Crowe. So what makes Brother Justin's devoted sister tick?
HBO.COM: Carnivale includes a lot of supernatural elements. Does your character have any powers?
AMY MADIGAN: I really feel that it's not the time to tell you. Iris's character does not have the powers that the two main characters in this story do, but there are other people who kind of...have an ancillary ability. So, it'll be interesting to kind of see how it develops in that sense...
HBO.COM: Right.
AMY MADIGAN: Iris is basically going to turn into a superhero next season.[LAUGHS]
HBO.COM: With a cape?
AMY MADIGAN: No, it'll be a much more modest outfit.[LAUGHS] Get a good look at my outfit, this is my little voodoo girl outfit, that I wear at all times. I'm going to take Iris home with me, and bring her out, when I need her. [LAUGHS]
HBO.COM: The series also has a certain ambiguity to it--people are not always what they seem to be. How does this apply to your character?
AMY MADIGAN: I think it's very much like life. If somebody acts on something, are they acting on the truth, or what they...perceive it to be?
I think that that, those lines kind of move to the right or to the left, depending on what you're involved with. As Iris, I love my brother more than anybody or anything in the world, and I would do anything for him, so certainly my perimeters might be a little stretched out as, as opposed to somebody else. But that's who I am with him.
HBO.COM: Does Iris have any goals herself? Or does she just help Justin?
AMY MADIGAN: Iris wants to see her brother succeed in every way, shape or form, and, and he has an enormous amount of power and charisma. We're in America, so boy, you can go as far as you want, can't you? Iris wants it for him--certainly she's going to be a part of it, but she believes that he is here for a real reason. Not just to be the good guy on the side, but to take command, take control, take charge, lead hundreds of thousands of people in the way of God.
HBO.COM: How about the other storyline, the carnies. Do you see Iris interacting with the carnival?
AMY MADIGAN: Well, not yet. I'm looking forward to learning the trapeze, and also being involved in a little juggling, possibly next year. No, no, no... [LAUGHS]. But the two stories kind of make some strange sense with each other. I think our characters are finally going to kind of come together, in some way, which I'm really looking forward to. It could be Armageddon, or a love fest.
HBO.COM: How would you describe your experience on the set of Carnivale?
AMY MADIGAN: Ah, it's an enormous undertaking, because it is a period piece, and there's so much going on, there are so many stories. But everybody's quite involved with it, and it's pretty extraordinary casting, and a really unbelievable bunch of writers. I think you'll like the show if you have some sensibility of the spooky side of things. It's very strange, it's very real, it's opera, it's great fun, it's bloody...it's all those things that you're looking for. [LAUGHS] Good sex... [LAUGHS] and ah...you'll just have to tune in and see.
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Carnival Fact
Sideshow performer Stanley Berent, A.K.A. Sealo the Seal Boy, was afflicted with phocomelia, which caused his hands to grow directly from his shoulders.
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