Carrie Preston Looks Back on "Claws"

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Carrie Preston's diverse "Polly Personas" were not necessarily written into the script when she started working on this TNT drama. "The script indicated that Polly was pretending to be someone else, but it wasn't prescriptive about changing my voice, or clothes, or any of those things," she says.

"Luckily, the first time it presented itself, which was early on in season one, someone comes in and recognizes Polly from a former life and calls her by a different name. And so, I thought it would be really fun if, on a dime, Polly just completely turns around and changes her body language, her voice, her accent. I thought, 'Let's just go for this,'" adds Preston, who often chose to model the personas on real celebrities she thought Polly might have been a fan of, like Judge Judy and Martha Graham.




As for Preston's costars Niecy Nash, Judy Reyes, Karrueche Tran, and Jenn Lyon?

"We have such a great chemistry. Our capacity for being completely and utterly silly with each other was limitless," Preston says. "We have a pretty solid 24/7 text thread going with a core group of us from the show to this day. So it's a show that I think is — even though it's over — going to stay with me for a long time, which I'm very grateful for."

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