Light points out that there’s something else that’s makes her have an affection for Irene: the script. You have to be your character’s best friend.” Of course, what they ended up trying to do was dreadful and terrible and too extreme, but I don’t hold someone as a villain. “You have to understand the character and what makes them do what they do.
“When you play a character, you can’t hold your character in that particular framework,” says Light. Judith Light can’t see her character on Poker Face as a villain-even if Irene did once have plans to blow up a Model UN meeting filled with teenagers. Download:: Poker Face's Judith Light on Unconsciously Playing Irene Like a Teenager from 'Euphoria' Awards Daily talks to four-time Emmy nominee Judith Light about playing the hippie domestic terrorist Irene on Peacock’s Poker Face.
