Why Molly Parker loves playing complex characters who've lost everything
The Canadian actor sits down with Q guest host Talia Schlanger to talk about her new series, Doc
When Molly Parker was in her 20s, she landed the role that put her on the map — playing a medical student with necrophilia in the Canadian indie movie Kissed.
After that, she went on to star in TV shows like Six Feet Under and Deadwood, which further established her as an actor who has a knack for playing complex characters.
In an interview with Q guest host Talia Schlanger, Parker says her hippie upbringing in a farming community outside of Vancouver gave her "a fairly high tolerance for outsiders" and "people outside of the norm."
"My parents were not mainstream," she explains. "We were not sort of super straight regular folks."
Now, Parker is once again diving into the fray with a character who's lost everything. In the new medical drama Doc, she stars as Dr. Amy Larsen, a brilliant doctor who's at the top of her game. But after she gets into a terrible car accident, she discovers she has amnesia and is forced to depend on others to remind her who she is.
"If you're lucky and you get to live long enough, we all will have that experience of when your world falls apart, and it feels like you've lost everything," Parker says. "And in my very humble experience, those moments are excruciating to live through. But they can be the moments where real growth happens."
The full interview with Molly Parker is available on our podcast, Q with Tom Power. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
Interview with Molly Parker produced by Kaitlyn Swan and Lise Hosein.
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