Betty Gilpin is seeking anti-algorithm, weird roles – and it's working

This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. The FX series The Lowdown just started its second season and has added Emmy Award winning actor Betty Gilpin to the cast and She spoke with fresh airs and Marie Baldonato. Last month the Betty Gilpin won an Emmy Award for her guest performance in the critically acclaimed and popular Apple TV show Widow's Bay.

A horror comedy about an island town that may actually be cursed. Gilpin plays a woming in the early 1700s, whose story is a vital part of the island's dark history. But even in a hoopskirt, Dealing with what might be a satanic deadly curse. Gilpin manages to bring humor and intelligence to her performance. In fact,

Most of her character seem to understand things that the people around them don't. The characters she plays are often more complicated than they first appear. In the Netflix series Glow, she plays a former soap opera star and new mom who reinvents herself as a professional wrestler. The role earned Gilpin three Emmy nominations. Now she's joining Ethan Hawk in the second season of The Lowdown, the FX crime noir drama created by Sterling Harjo, who also created the show Reservation Dogs. Hawk plays Lee, a self appointed investigative journalist slash bookstore owner,

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