Merritt Wever doesn't feel pretty in pink.
"I thought for some reason I would be very incognito, because I wouldn't be wearing pink in my day-to-day life," said Wever, who plays the hilariously quirky Zoey in the Edie Falco series Nurse Jackie. "It didn't necessarily work out that way."
So Merritt, your recognizability factor notwithstanding, you really never wear pink scrubs from time to time, simply as a fashion choice?
"Just at night, at home," Wever said with a chuckle. "I'm such a Method actor.
"But I like that Zoey wears things I would never wear. I like getting something very specific and far from myself that I can go into."
It's striking to meet Wever in person, because the calm-and-cool vibe she gives off is so different from her character, who is bursting with nervous energy.
In Nurse Jackie — the second season of which currently is airing Mondays on The Movie Network and Movie Central — Zoey is an eager-to-please junior nurse and a strange mix of confidence and insecurity.
One of Zoey's most noticeable characteristics is her bizarre body language. At various intervals, she flails her arms, twists and contorts, scurries up behind people when she wants to talk to them privately, or scurries away when she senses her presence is unwanted.
How much of that endearing element of Zoey came from the creators of Nurse Jackie, and how much came from Wever herself?
"I think maybe it was a combination," said Wever, a native of New York who as a teenager in the late 1990s spent a summer in Toronto making the film The Hairy Bird with Kirsten Dunst and Gaby Hoffmann.
"I don't think (Zoey's body language) necessarily was in there, but (the writers) responded to certain things, or they wrote things for which I very easily could use my body. So it came up from both sides, organically and naturally."
Actually, Zoey's physical displays seem so natural, it's tough to imagine the character without them.
"She must have been fertile ground in some way for physical comedy, because it just slipped in easily, with the limbs, the way they go all over, stuff like that," Wever said.
"The producers are very encouraging of trying new things, and it's okay to try stuff that doesn't work. If you're lucky enough to be in a safe environment like that, you can throw a lot of stuff out there and find the small percentage that works."
Well, much more than a small percentage of Wever's work on Nurse Jackie works just fine, thank you very much.
In a series where the lead character is not a very nice person — Falco's Jackie is a great nurse, but she's a sharp-tongued grump who cheats on her husband and is addicted to drugs — Zoey's awkward sweetness is a welcome antidote.
"I think it's good that Zoey is in a profession where she can expend a lot of energy and intensity and focus," Wever said.
"Whatever it is that Zoey has, she has a lot of it to give."
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