Judith Light explains why she immediately said yes to AMC’s horror anthology, and how the series uses monsters to confront real-world neglect of the mentally ill.
Judith Light doesn’t call herself a horror person. But in a new conversation with Kyle Meredith, she describes why she immediately said yes to AMC’s The Terror: Devil in Silver. “After two lines, I’m in,” she remembers. The role of Dory, a psychiatric patient abandoned inside a labyrinthine institution, gave her a way to talk about something larger than scares.
The series, the latest chapter in the horror anthology, deploys monsters and madness to mirror how the American healthcare system discards people. Light doesn’t treat the supernatural as pure fiction. “We have to talk about this,” she says. “People are discarded. People are no longer held as human beings.” For her, acting becomes a form of service, a
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