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"Netflix original series House of Cards has attracted top-flight Hollywood talent - Kevin Spacey, David Fincher - for its 13-episode first season, which will be made available in its entirety on February 1. Robin Wright - who stars as Claire Underwood, the formidable wife of Spacey&amp;#039;s ruthless politician Francis &amp;#039;Frank&amp;#039; Underwood - spoke to journalists about the project, her role and reuniting with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director Fincher. You&amp;#039;ve worked with David Fincher before - was it a different experience collaborating on an ongoing series? &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s more hurried, because he has less time. I don&amp;#039;t know if he&amp;#039;s going to direct any season two episodes. I think it was a shock to his system to not have the amount of time that he&amp;#039;s accustomed to, but his trademark is still seen in this show - it&amp;#039;s definitely &amp;#039;Fincher-esque&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; How do you see your character Claire Underwood? &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a marble bust, you don&amp;#039;t know anything about her, she&amp;#039;s an enigma - she, the woman, is going to start to crack through this marble, she&amp;#039;s going to emerge, and that fascinated me. I thought that this was going to be a fun arc to play for 13 hours.&amp;quot; What do you think of people streaming House of Cards to their computer, as opposed to watching it on a big screen? &amp;quot;People buy box sets and they sit for a whole weekend, with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people - the relationships - and it doesn&amp;#039;t matter to them if they&amp;#039;re watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen.&amp;quot; Were you aware of the BBC&amp;#039;s House of Cards adaptation? &amp;quot;I never watched the show - [I] don&amp;#039;t wanna watch it - because I was so fearful that I was going to have to emulate it perfectly, and I knew I wasn&amp;#039;t going to be able to do that. &amp;quot;And then I was told [that the lead character&amp;#039;s wife] is barely in the original series - or not as flourished a character. I really had no interest in doing television and I never watch TV, so when I decided to do this, David assured me. He said, &amp;#039;You realise that this is the future?&amp;#039; and now I see that it is!&amp;quot;  [Above: Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in &amp;#039;House of Cards&amp;#039;] Do you think Claire resembles any real politician&amp;#039;s wives? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know and it would be so presumptuous for anyone to say unless they&amp;#039;re close friends with Tipper Gore or Hillary Clinton. We only know what we&amp;#039;re fed by the media - in any country - and I have to say hands down I&amp;#039;m sure half of that is complete bulls**t - so I didn&amp;#039;t want to use that as a template in any form, because that&amp;#039;s just speculation. &amp;quot;So what we could use was a fictional character like Lady Macbeth, but Instead of Lady Macbeth to Macbeth, it&amp;#039;s Lady Macbeth to Kevin Spacey&amp;#039;s Richard III.&amp;quot; This is a very different type of role for you. Did you feel previously like you were often cast in the same type of part? &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s true with most of us in this industry. People will respond to a particular quality - a way you convey a woman - and that became very pat, I have to say. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s safe for people - &amp;#039;Yeah, we like her when she does that, we like Sandra Bullock when she does the Miss Congeniality thing\u2026&amp;#039; - it&amp;#039;s so pat, it&amp;#039;s so safe, that they can&amp;#039;t see you doing something else and then you get locked in that cycle, because directors will only think of you one way. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a shame because\u2026 wouldn&amp;#039;t it be nice to open up the variety pack? It&amp;#039;s really having a director or two that has the faith to let you go outside of the box. And then you hope that the new audience will welcome you in that.&amp;quot;  [Above: The cast and crew of &amp;#039;House of Cards&amp;#039; at the show&amp;#039;s London premiere] Cable television used to be seen as the home of &amp;#039;risky&amp;#039; television - do you think online is its natural successor? &amp;quot;I think you&amp;#039;re probably right, and we&amp;#039;re seeing it more and more. It used to be almost the staple negative comment - &amp;#039;The role wasn&amp;#039;t big enough&amp;#039; - and that&amp;#039;s bulls**t. It has nothing to do with the size of the role - just give me something interesting to do! &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve heard cameos on some of these cable shows are better than a main role in a movie - and the quality of material that you get to play\u2026 they&amp;#039;re definitely breaking the barrier, I think. &amp;quot;Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today. You&amp;#039;ve got all the comic book movies - Iron Man and Batman and whatever. Then there&amp;#039;s Pixar - the animation part of it\u2026 &amp;quot;And the high drama is a musical like Les Mis or Baz Luhrmann&amp;#039;s The Great Gatsby. It&amp;#039;s a lot of entertainment, it&amp;#039;s like going to Broadway. With House of Cards, you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it&amp;#039;s a thriller!&amp;quot; House of Cards will be available to watch in full exclusively on Netflix from Friday, February 1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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