Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2009-10-28

Interview:
We had the pleasure of chatting with Katey Sagal who portrays Gemma Teller on FX's Sons Of Anarchy. Check it out below!

Your character, you have such an allegiance to your son, Jax, and such for Clay. But if you think that Gemma had to choose between the two, where do you think, especially this season more than any, where do you think her allegiance is really? Where is her heart most?

K. Sagal: I think it's a tough question. Her allegiance is to everybody. I mean, you know, what she's desperately fighting for, in my opinion, is to protect the whole system. This is her life, the whole thing. In my back-story of Gemma, she has nowhere else that she's come from. I mean, where she's come from, she doesn't want to go back to, so her loyalty is to the entire situation. I would imagine if she really had to choose, oh, gosh. I really don't know. I would say her son. That's what I would say, but you never know with her.

Right. I spoke to Henry Rollins and talked about the rape scene with him, and he said it was a very unpleasant day for him as an actor. I wanted to know, from your perspective obviously, what was the repercussion of that? How long did it take you to shake off that scene?

K. Sagal: To me, those scenes are done very by the book and very choreographed, and it was a very safe environment. We had been to the space a couple of days before we actually shot the scene, so we could kind of take it in and realize where we were going to be. And the actual shooting of the scene probably didn't take more than two, three hours. Shaking it off was actually a process through the next three or four episodes are pretty intense in terms of dealing with it, and so it kind of was hanging around. I mean, it hung around for most of the season with Gemma, but the really super dark, emotional visits I had to take, I would say, it was a good month. Not that I was walking around with it every moment of the day. I have three kids at home, but it was definitely a dark experience.

I was wondering about Jax' dad and sort of the circumstances surrounding his death. Will there be - it always seems sort of fishy what's going on with that. There seems to be sort of a Hamlet dynamic going on here. Will we learn more about that as the season goes on?

K. Sagal: It comes up in bits for this second season. I have a feeling that through the arch of the series, you will find out more about that history and that back-story.