After 11 years playing Claire Dunphy on Modern familyJulie Bowen says she gets it a lot role for moms. Don’t get mad about it.
“I didn’t really care,” Bowen tells PEOPLE. “I loved the job and I love working, but I always thought, if Claire Dunphy is the last job I ever had, then I’ve lived a good life.” However, her latest role in Peacock’s pop-horror series Hysteria!about the satanic panic of the 80s, she wasn’t just a typical suburban mom role.
Julie Bowen as Linda Campbell in ‘Hysteria!’
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“I read the pilot and I was like, ‘I’m fine. I don’t need anything else, just mom,'” she says. “But then, at the end of the pilot, you realize that something is wrong, really wrong with her. And we don’t know if she’s possessed by the devil or if she’s completely in her head and a crazy person. And I thought, I as that.”
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Nolan North as Gene, Julie Bowen as Linda, Bruce Campbell as Chief Dandridge in ‘Hysteria!’
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She adds, “It was so much fun. I’m still not clear at the end of the season. I wonder, am I crazy?”
She says there is also a temporal element to the theme of the story, which follows teenagers in a small town who fall into a satanic panic and form a metal band.
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“Matthew Scott King, who wrote it, explained to me that it’s about people who are in news bubbles. And we’re all in news bubbles now,” says Bowen, 54.
“Your algorithm gives you the news, and we’re all just going into these little echo chambers. And what a great way to kind of show how it works, to go back to a time when there was no digital media, there was no Internet. But you have a small town where everyone gets the same misinformation and spreads it around in this bubble, showing how dangerous it gets from all these people believing the same gossip.”
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Bowen says he remembers the satanic panic of the ’80s quite clearly. “It was like, if you play this Slayer or Megadeth record backwards, this scary thing happens,” she says. “It wasn’t something I was interested in. I was too busy in the yard riding a fake horse.”
Next, Bowen is currently filming Happy Gilmore continuing with Adam Sandler, producing several projects and looking at scripts.
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As for great roles for older women, she says there are.
“Jodie Foster has moved on. She’s my fucking hero. And Annette Bening. But a lot of my peers still look like they’re 30! I remember once I lost a role to one of those overworked people and they said, ‘We want someone older than you,” and I said, “But she looks like she’s 22!”
Hysteria! now streaming on Peacock.
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