Sisterhood may be powerful, but it sounds like Betty Gilpin's latest TV role is taking that phrase to violent extremes. When I catch her to discuss her book "All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns," she deadpans that her recent days have been spent running around in a nun's habit, sobbing her eyes out. Compared to that, chatting about her publishing debut sounds like vacation.
Gilpin is used to running herself into the red, a point that arises time and again in a collection of essays that contemplate her upbringing and road down which she's steamed, one that earned her an Emmy nomination along with notoriety for roles in such acclaimed dramas series as "Masters of Sex," "Nurse Jackie" and "GLOW," the gone-too-soon story of women wrestlers in the 1980s. The nun role she references in passing, "Mrs. Davis," is an upcoming drama from Damon Lindelof and Tara Hernandez that's set to air on Peacock.
