Jessica Jones Star on Her Excitement for the Marvel Series
Krysten Ritter, the recently cast star of Netflix’s upcoming Marvel series A.K.A. Jessica Jones, is all kinds of excited about her new gig.
12 DEC 2014 BY ADAM DILEO
Krysten Ritter, the
recently cast star of the upcoming Netflix series Marvel's A.K.A. Jessica Jones, is seriously digging the comics her new show is based on.
While speaking to
Cosmopolitan.com about her role in the new Tim Burton film, Big Eyes, Ritter admits she wasn’t a comic book fan before she was cast as Jessica Jones, but now she can’t put the source material -- Brian Michael Bendis' and Michael Gaydos' acclaimed Marvel comic, Alias -- down.
“I wasn't, but I am now reading the Jessica Jones comics and devouring them. And [I'm]
hooked. I don't think I've been so hooked on something since Serial. So now I feel that way about the Jessica Jones series. I can't wait. I mean, as soon as we're done today, that's what I am going to be doing. I'm really excited about Jessica Jones. It's so f**king cool. It's so cool. I can't wait to
watch it.”
Ritter had memorable roles on Breaking Bad and Veronica Mars before landing a starring role on Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. In the Cosmo interview, Ritter also expressed her excitement at working with another female creative, Jessica Jones showrunner Melissa Rosenberg (who wrote for the first four seasons of Dexter, before adapting the Twilight books for those blockbuster films).
“It's crazy, because I remember, like, six years ago, I was like, ‘I just want to work with female directors and female showrunners; there's none.’ And I feel like, since then, I've exclusively worked with women, which I love. I worked with Amy Heckerling, Kat [Coiro], Jessica Goldberg, Leslye Headland, Nahnatchka Khan, the creator of Don't Trust the B--, who is my idol and bar for anything funny. And now Melissa! It's a dream come true."
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