There is a certain kinetic rhythm to comedy which I love, but I was craving a change and I was craving a way to express myself as an artist, in a different way, and looking for that opportunity. That comedy is a result of tragedy and exposing the humor of it. I love comedy! Comedy always comes from, to me, a sense of the tragic and the absurd. Jenna Elfman: As an artist, I was craving a new opportunity to express myself in a different way. I also genuinely enjoy and love people.Īllison Kugel: Did you want to take the role of June in Fear the Walking Dead to explore a darker, grittier side of yourself? Is that what attracted you to this show? You feel so kickass when you solve problems, and that’s part of the adventure and I enjoy that. ![]() Even the problems I tend to enjoy because I like to try to solve them. ![]() I certainly move through all the human emotions like a normal person, but I do, as a general living condition, enjoy living life. I think life is fun and people are interesting, I have always been that way. I remember seeing you in different settings, on red carpets, and thinking, “What’s the deal with this woman? Why is she so happy?” I don’t know if that is your 24/7 being, or if that is what you portrayed publicly. Jenna Elfman as June – Fear the Walking Dead _ Season 6, Episode 8 – Photo Credit: Ryan Green/AMCĪllison Kugel: I first became aware of you years ago from your sitcom, Dharma and Greg. I would always hope that as a culture changes, it would improve in those ways so that we could expand our culture in a way that is safer and more fun to live within. Jenna Elfman: There is always a greater opportunity for harmony and tolerance, and a broader and enlightened sense of each other, and respect. Jenna Elfman: Changing, and hopefully evolving…Īllison Kugel: What do you think the upside would be if we needed to rebuild our society from the ground up, like in Fear? I think with the extreme example of what we do on Fear, which portrays a true apocalypse setting, it is an extreme version of the homeopathic dose we saw manifest amongst ourselves last year.Īllison Kugel: And your take on our current society and culture? You see the ones that tend to help, and you see the ones that tend to hoard, and everything in between. We really got to see what people do when their survival is threatened (laugh). Jenna Elfman yearned to tackle the kind of self-contained, multi-dimensional character work she now enjoys with her role in Fear the Walking Dead.Īllison Kugel: What parallels do you draw between the year 2020 and your apocalyptic show, Fear of The Walking Dead? Jenna Elfman as June- Fear the Walking Dead _ Season 6, Episode 9 – Photo Credit: Ryan Green/AMC As Jenna puts it during our conversation, “young ingenue” roles were her lane for many years whether playing opposite Matthew McConaughey or Ben Stiller, her characters were somebody’s wife or somebody’s girlfriend. ![]() ![]() Having come into our homes in the late 1990s and early 2000s as spirited Dharma Finkelstein on the Chuck Lorre created sitcom, Dharma & Greg, and later in romantic comedy films like Keeping the Faith and EDtv, audiences got to know the funny platinum blonde livewire that embodied a younger Jenna Elfman. What makes Jenna Elfman so interesting to watch on screen are her exotic blue eyes that dance wildly in comedic roles, and simmer with intent during heavier, more dramatic onscreen moments. Her character carries significant trauma, and Elfman plays each note to perfection amid a flawless ensemble cast. In AMC’s hit series, Fear the Walking Dead, the post-apocalyptic spin-off series of The Walking Dead, now in the second half of its sixth season, actress Jenna Elfman brings a tour de force performance as former ICU nurse and apocalypse survivor, June Dorie.
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