And the irony of it is she’s a code breaker - or once was,” she says. “All of those things, all of that self-doubt, it’s all there, but it’s blanketed by this very calculating and equipped woman with a really encoded mind. When she first meets FBI agent Will Keaton (Morris Chestnut), who wants her help, for example, “she’s wondering if is a hallucination.” She wanted to play that reality in the pilot episode, so when the audience first meets Erica, Carpenter reveals, “all of her facets there.” She couldn’t be “too sharp,” but she also had to be somewhat afraid of being “found out” that she didn’t have complete control over herself. “I, as the actor, am kind of treating it as life after death.”ĪDMAX, Carpenter notes, is a place where people can easily “go crazy” because they spend all of their time alone. “All of this is borrowed time,” she says of her character’s attitude. Isn’t that what art is supposed to be?”Īs an actress on the show, Carpenter adds that she is constantly “acclimating” as her character is meeting a “new normal…every other minute.” The woman who was once a powerful government employee was charged with 15 life sentences in federal prison and was in the middle of serving her time when she is plucked from an ADMAX cell in the pilot episode to help the FBI with a case. “I think begs a larger question, like ‘Who do you trust in your life and on a wider scope in your government, your country? Are you checking your sources? Are you doing things based on feelings are you doing things based on information - and where is that information coming from? I hope there is a ripple effect.
“I want to do the muscling of raising the bar for network television to feel like the complicated world of cable,” Carpenter tells Variety. The goal of the show is “to make the audience work really hard to get ahead of us,” and therefore, she hopes, will elevate the offerings on broadcast.
She stars as former CIA agent Erica Shepherd, who gave up classified information to some very bad people in order to keep her daughter safe, in the NBC drama “The Enemy Within” from Ken Woodruff. After spending eight seasons on a premium cable drama (Showtime’s “Dexter”) and one on a broadcast procedural (CBS’ “Limitless”), Jennifer Carpenter is placing her bets back on broadcast.
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