“I love that she’s so complicated and you rarely know what she’s thinking,” says Toni Colette of her character on the new Netflix series, 'Pieces of Her.'
“Every scene was more emotionally demanding than I anticipated,” the actor told. “I had no idea how intense it was going to be and was truly exhausted by the end. I think I let myself get fooled, because I might not have done it if I knew where it would take me.”by Karin Slaughter, the Netflix limited series stars Collette as Laura, a loving mother and speech pathologist in small-town Georgia.
“It was epic and hugely stressful,” she says. “I was shitting myself because I couldn’t use sheet music. Laura is playing from memory in the scene, so, you know,Laura fits comfortably into Collette’s eclectic slate of characters. Like her creations in, Laura is a woman whose pleasant exterior masks deep layers of trauma. And while Collette may regret her habit of signing on to such heavy material, it certainly keeps things interesting.
“I’d get bored playing more straightforward women,” she says. “I like people who dig deep and own their lives—the good, the bad, and the ugly. We make so many choices, and now it’s Laura’s time to take responsibility for her own.”