The new girl in school has a strikingly bold look that will only be upstaged by her fearlessly sick wardrobe. With Derek building an army of wolves, you might have been surprised to see ugly duckling good girl Erica as the first femme wolf fatale, but her newfound confidence makes her just as gorgeous as she is dangerous. We trek down to Atlanta, where Teen Wolf’s new baddie Gage Golightly embraces her dark side By Terron R. Moore
OLOGY: So what’s Erica’s deal, and what's she bringing to Season 2?
GAGE GOLIGHTLY: Oh my goodness! First of all, I’ve probably never had so much fun playing a character before; I started as the kind of girl that nobody wants to be and everybody hates and turns into somebody who everybody wants to be and who wants to hate.
This is sort of who Lydia was last year, was it not?
You know what? I’ve kind of made her look very sweet. [Laughs]
Really?
Really! Put a lot of her heels to shame too!
Yeah! The ones you’re wearing right now... oh God. They’re spiked, and insane-looking.
These are ridiculous. But you know what? They’re actually really comfortable, which is kind of strange. Everybody is like, “Oh my gosh, how do you walk in those?” I’m like, “With a little bit of difficulty!”
So how’d you get the part on Teen Wolf?
Well, it being Teen Wolf, they don’t release the scripts, so I didn’t know anything about this girl. I just had this scene and I was like, “I have a really good feeling. I really, really want this.” So I went in and I just played the scene, and I looked like absolute garbage, because she was supposed to be very sick! And then they called me back and they’re like, “You did great! You looked like garbage! But in the second scene, you’re supposed to look really hot, so we need to come back in and have you in and see if you can look hot.” So I came back in and then they were like, “Okay, you look like a hooker, so you’re going to have to come back in again.” It was actually one of the funniest processes I’ve ever been through!
Well, you’re clearly playing the hot girl today…
Well, this is called wardrobe! My personal ensemble would be pajamas. But I’m having a lot of fun playing Erica: she’s somebody that I’ve always wanted to play, so I got very lucky.
What do you hope viewers get out of Erica?
I hope that viewers can understand the poor girl and where I’m coming from. Because I don’t want people to just think, “Oh my gosh, this chick is crazy and she’s mean,” because I’m really not. It’s all the things that I’ve been through that have almost forced me to become this mean person. So I’m trying very hard to make the viewers understand where I’m coming from, and I hope that people know that I can be a likeable character underneath the misunderstanding of what I’m playing.
So romantically speaking, where does Erica fall on the season’s love scale?
Okay, you ask about romance, but she uses sex as a ploy almost. She’s very scandalous!
That’s not good!
No, it’s not! But at the same time you have to see where she kind of comes from. She’s as frayed as her hair, which I pull off very well- and every blonde would know that! And nobody likes her... so to go from somebody that’s disliked and nobody finds attractive to being the most attractive, it’s so different. And I was in high school, obviously, so it’s strange because I kinda went through the same thing!
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