“They allude to Martha having a breakdown three years ago and we talk among ourselves about what might be going on. When she says, 'We used to be a good team,' I think she means that.”
“She's obviously sort of volatile ... big ups and downs are not completely foreign to her and obviously, too, she's on medication and once she took that medication, that affected her greatly.”
“They sort of thought of my character as being a bit of a loose cannon, so I think Martha Mitchell (the wife of Attorney General John Mitchell in the Nixon administration) probably came to mind. But I think that's certainly how she got the name Martha.”
