'Lucy Lawless is bewitching as a newcomer to WGN’s ‘Salem’'

Q: Tell me about your character, the Countess Marburg.

Answer: I’m playing one of the last of the original witches. She’s thousands of years old and has had many incarnations. She often died horrible deaths. She’s a real survivor. She now has stumbled across Salem, and Mary Sibley, who is the most fascinating person the countess has met in hundreds of years. She becomes fixated on Mary, which means inevitably that I must consume her. But Mary’s not going to go easily.



Q: You’ve played a lot of powerful and often startling women. Are you tough off-screen?

Answer: It took me years, decades, to learn to be soft. I was raised (in New Zealand) with a lot of brothers. I didn’t know I was a girl until I was about 8. But if that’s my lot in life, I’m not one to grumble. It’s been pretty good.



Q: Did you plan a career where you would play such groundbreaking roles?

Answer: I float through life with no plans at all. I am in awe of those actors who are always doing stuff to promote themselves with videos and a website. That ain’t me. I just kind of float on. But I have to say in retrospect, I don’t think I could have been any luckier.



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