She explained to the publication: “Early on, I saw that I wasn’t getting cast as the girl next door, I wasn’t getting cast as the ‘daughter of’.”
However, it appears to have worked to Garner’s advantage in the end including the daughter of a woman who marries a conman in Dirty John and is highly suspicious of her mother’s new beau, or her part as an unsuspecting asset of a KGB operative in The Americans.
She admitted it had been initially “really tough” playing Ruth as she tried to wrap her head around the character.
The star said: “It almost felt like I had been hit with a frying pan every single night.”
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source: express.co.uk