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Betty Gilpin will be participating in an event hosted by Books Are Magic with “Three Women” author Lisa Taddeo on November 14, 2024 in Brooklyn! You can purchase tickets for the event at allevents.in!
The Starz series Three Women, adapted from Lisa Taddeo’s award-winning novel of the same name, is an exploration of female desire and the individual exploration for three different women at different places in their lives, learning what that means for them. Gia (Shailene Woodley) is a writer in search of ordinary women who will tell her their stories and share their intimate experiences, and Lina (Betty Gilpin), a homemaker in suburban Indiana whose passionless marriage leads her to reconnect with an old flame, is one of those women. Throughout the episodes, the audience gets to know Lina better through her relationship and conversations with Gia, her home life, and her own journey of self-discovery.
During this one-on-one interview with Collider, Gilpin talked about what an honor it was to live out Lina’s journey, how dedicated every department was to get every detail just right, that respecting these women’s real stories was of the utmost importance to everyone involved with the project, what made these sex scenes different to shoot from scenes she’d done previously, what she learned from playing Lina, and what she’s working on now.
The STARZ drama Three Women follows the lives of three women on a crash course to radically overturn their lives, and one of those women, Lina (Betty Gilpin), is a homemaker in suburban Indiana, a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life.
Lina’s affair with her high school ex-boyfriend Aidan (Austin Stowell), features incredibly graphic sex scenes that include male nudity. For the GLOW star, it was a learning experience as she worked with Claire Warden, the intimacy coordinator, and found a comfort level she hadn’t experienced previously.
“I’ve done many sex scenes before this show, and I’ve shrugged my shoulders and rolled my eyes at them and waived them off as this necessary algorithm box that we had to check to get to the rest of the show for people to watch it,” Gilpin says. “This was so different. It was such an integral part of the show and a necessary part of the show, a story about female desire. And they ended up being some of the most emotional and important, and my favorite days on set and helped me process some experiences that I didn’t realize I had negative experiences with. This was so positive.”
Three Women, based on the eponymous novel on sexuality in contemporary America written by Lisa Taddeo, also stars Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise and Gabrielle Creevy in the true life story of Lina, Sloane (Wise), a glamorous entrepreneur in the Northeast; and Maggie (Creevy), a waitress in North Dakota.
As the story unfolds, all three women are in flux as they seek to change their lives, and while at these crossroads, they are convinced to tell their stories to Gia (Shailene Woodley), a character based on Taddeo who in real-life drove around the U.S. searching out compelling women’s stories that she turned into the book.
“When Lisa’s book came out, I was just so consumed by all three stories and really saw parts of myself in each of them,” Gilpin says. “Lina, in particular, I was just so struck by how unapologetic her desire was, and her need was, and that we’re meeting her at a time in her life where she’s really at a breaking point of desperation, of needing to be touched and kissed and held and celebrated while being treated so invisibly by the people around her.”
Then Lina meets Gia, who gives her the emotional attention she craves, which gives her the push she needs to reunite with Aidan and begin their affair, which gives her the physical attention she craves.
“I think between Aidan and Gia, she can patchwork together one full person giving her all the things she needs and deserves,” Gilpin says.
I have added 5,220 HD screen captures of Betty Gilpin from all episodes of the TV series Three Women into our photo gallery!
Stories about women – the way that they live, the roads that they take, and the strength that the possess are something that we love to watch. Women are complicated creatures, but the simple thing that binds us all? Well, that would be that women (most people really) want nothing more than to be loved.
In Starz’s latest television series – Three Women – the characters are being asked to share about their lives. The gist? Well, that would be that “writer Gia convinces three women to tell her their stories; entrepreneur Sloane, homemaker Lina, and student Maggie are on a crash course to radically overturn their lives.”
Three women and their stories take center stage in the show that has already aired in its entirety in Australia. It was shot for Showtime but is airing on Starz. The 10-episode series feels like a series of short stories wrapped into one long drawn-out book, but that’s not such a bad thing. Why? Because that’s the way life is. Sometimes it is drawn out. Sometimes it feels like a little bit of an overtelling.
Talking with star Betty Gilpin, we wanted to learn more about her character of Lina. It’s always interesting to hear how an actor describes their character.
Lina kicks off her flight from a stagnant marriage and a body of pain. Watch new episodes of Three Women, starring Shailene Woodley and Betty Gilpin, Fridays on STARZ.
Starz already won the battle for the steamiest show of the fall with “Three Women,” its adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s 2019 nonfiction book of the same name. But even though this drama is filled with sweaty sex and orgasms, viewers may be surprised by the intimate and insightful themes explored on the show.
“There’s so much focus on the female-centric parts of the show, but to me, it’s just a show about human beings doing the best they can under really intense circumstances. That’s just called life,” series star Shailene Woodley told TheWrap.
“It allowed me to have different insights into parts of myself that maybe I was running from,” the actor behind Gia added. “It’s even something [Taddeo] wrote into the script. If you could affect one person and know it made a small difference in their life, you’ve done something beautiful. That would be my intention — that [‘Three Women’] opens up conversations. Maybe people do have a little more fun with each other. Maybe they’re a little more open-minded when it comes to their bodies, more communication.”
“There are just not parts like this out there. It was such an insane gift,” series star Betty Gilpin, who plays the sexually frustrated Lena, told TheWrap. “It’s like if Hamlet were an over-caffeinated deer in the woods who was looking for a vibrator.”
As the title implies, the series revolves around three women at different stages of their lives, all of whom have radically different relationships with their sexualities. Lena (Gilpin) stands as the hopeless romantic who’s trapped in a disappointing marriage and is desperate to have a passionate, loving sex life. Sloane (DeWanda Wise) is an outwardly sexual woman who’s always in charge in the bedroom, and who engages in polyamory alongside her husband. Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy) is a young woman whose first real encounter with romance, love and sex happened with her high school teacher. All are connected by Gia (Shailene Woodley), a writer who becomes obsessed with telling their stories.
Among the releases of the 2024 TV schedule this fall is the STARZ’s miniseries Three Women. Based on the 2019 nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Taddeo, the drama serves as a deep dive into the complicated facets of female sexuality through true stories of multiple women from across the United States. CinemaBlend spoke to one of the show’s main stars, Betty Gilpin, about the person she portrays, and the source material was pivotal to her.
Much like Shailene Woodley’s character of Gia in the Three Women series, author Lisa Taddeo travelled across the U.S. in hopes of finding the right stories to tell about women and their sexuality. Among the women she found was a suburban wife and mother living in Indiana who dealt with a very unsatisfying marriage. After speaking with the woman (who’s name is Lina in the novel and series), her story has been immortalized in Three Women. And it’s one that had her fighting for her own pleasure after her high school crush gets back into her life.
Along with CinemaBlend’s conversation with Shailene Woodley about how playing her role brought about memories of her time living on the road, Betty Gilpin spoke to me about how Lisa Taddeo’s The New York Times bestselling novel assisted her in playing her latest character. In her words:
I think about the way she describes wanting to be kissed and needing to be kissed, and what a priority that was for Lina. You know, I think that so much of Lina is motherhood and trauma have made her a thousand years old, but she’s also frozen at 16 – wanting to be The Princess Bride and wanting to be somebody’s fairy princess and to be kissed, and just the need, the deep surging, pulsing, real bald need and want of just her mouth on someone else’s, and that she’s not even getting that from her husband. I thought about that all the time, that this is somebody who’s living the wrong life and we’re meeting her at the point where she’s saying, enough is enough. I am going to reverse the course of my life, and get what I want.
The first episode certainly makes a point of communicating Lina’s feelings in a visual way – especially in one sequence when Lina stops in her tracks while grocery shopping at a scene playing on TVs of a romantic moment in The Princess Bride. Throughout playing Lina in the series, Gilpin really grasped on to the deep want that is communicated through the novel.
Betty Gilpin first major gig after bit parts as the victim of the week in assorted “Law & Order’s” was in “Nurse Jackie.” As Dr. Carrie Roman, Gilpin described her experience in her 2022 memoir, “All the Women in My Brain,” as “while a dream come true, was a constant frantic tap dance between the two gendered peanut galleries” of the misogynist tone the series took in later seasons and connecting with writers Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.
“The first big TV job I auditioned for, I was told that getting naked on camera was the necessary toll to pay if I wanted the part,” she continued.
Flahive and Mensch then went on to create the canceled-too-soon women’s wrestling comedy “GLOW,” which served as Gilpin’s breakout role. She played Debbie Eagan, former soap star turned new mom struggling with her body being a vessel for nourishment of her baby and not her own anymore. It’s through professional wrestling that she was able to feel ownership of her body again.
“I’m back in my body and I’m using it for me. I feel like a goddamn superhero,” she exclaims in a Season 3 episode.
Using her body to provide new insight into her compelling characters has been a recurring theme throughout Gilpin’s work. In Gilpin’s latest project, the long-awaited adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s 2019 non-fiction book “Three Women,” she plays a similarly dissatisfied wife and mother whose husband won’t touch her. Set in Bible-belt middle America, Gilpin’s Lina suffers physically from fibromyalgia and endometriosis but emotionally from shame.
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