Dale Dickey on How She Got Through Rosemary’s Big ‘Widow’s Bay’ Scene
One of the many well-deserved Emmy nominations for Widow’s Bay went to Dale Dickey, whose hilariously wry turn as town hall employee Rosemary quickly made the character a fan favorite. Though we loved her frequent sarcastic quips and her “qualms” about Patricia’s disastrous Sunset Cocktails, Rosemary’s biggest moment came in the penultimate episode, “Emergency Shelter,” when she broke down 400 years of island genealogy to reveal Richard Warren’s cursed gene pool. In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, veteran character actor Dickey looked back on the epic scene, recalling its “11 pages of dialogue.” Getting through the speech, she said, was “terrifying.
- ▪One of the many well-deserved Emmy nominations for Widow’s Bay went to Dale Dickey, whose hilariously wry turn as town hall employee Rosemary quickly made the character a fan favorite.
- ▪Though we loved her frequent sarcastic quips and her “qualms” about Patricia’s disastrous Sunset Cocktails, Rosemary’s biggest moment came in the penultimate episode, “Emergency Shelter,” when she broke down 400 years of island genealogy to
- ▪In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, veteran character actor Dickey looked back on the epic scene, recalling its “11 pages of dialogue.” Getting through the speech, she said, was “terrifying.
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One of the many well-deserved Emmy nominations for Widow’s Bay went to Dale Dickey, whose hilariously wry turn as town hall employee Rosemary quickly made the character a fan favorite. Though we loved her frequent sarcastic quips and her “qualms” about Patricia’s disastrous Sunset Cocktails, Rosemary’s biggest moment came in the penultimate episode, “Emergency Shelter,” when she broke down 400 years of island genealogy to reveal Richard Warren’s cursed gene pool. In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, veteran character actor Dickey looked back on the epic scene, recalling its “11 pages of dialogue.” Getting through the speech, she said, was “terrifying.
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