“I kind of feel like I conned my way into having some sort of title–but I earned it.” Even when we were naming the captain, it was like, ‘What do we wanna call her?’ And I didn’t want a silly name, so I was kind of like, ‘Well, what’s wrong with ‘Captain?” There is something to be said for walking around the theater everyone salutes me and says, ‘Hello, Captain!’ He let me take the role in whatever direction I wanted it to go.
“He really let me kind of run with it, and I love being bold and dismissive. And he really liked the kind of attitude I bring as a lesbian and a kind of big-personality woman, because we don’t see that a lot. “I mean, obviously, I’m maybe a little more nuanced, but really let us run with our characters.
‘A hundred percent,” laughed Durwood during a recent phone chat when asked how much of The Captain is her.
