Garner continued: “The thing that drew me was the dialogue, and how I got a sense of the character through what she was saying.
“It was very complex—even though I didn’t know the context of what happened in the show apart from the pilot, I figured out quickly, this girl is this, and this, and this. It was very clear.”
Unlike her onscreen character, the New York native doesn’t have a strong Missouri accent.
Instead, Garner auditioned with a Southern Missouri dialect because she felt it was right for the character.
Her Missouri inflections helped her to bag the role of Ruth, saying she’d done a similar accent for the movie Tomato Red the year before.
While the accent wasn’t easy, she said it had been “familiar” to her when she went for the part.
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