Actress Sarah Wayne Callies’ career was largely launched by her performance in Prison Break, but not without a cost.
The star of The Walking Dead and other series described the Prison Break set as rife with “rampant misogyny,” providing details on the Rachel Bilson podcast Broad Ideas.
Many of the guys on the show were “totally gentlemen,” she said, but for those who were not, “I would go home some nights and have to spend an hour talking my husband out of going to hospitalise somebody,” she told the host.
Sometimes “the only woman around” on set, Callies said, “I’ve had an actor on that show spit in my face.”
She told Bilson and co-host Olivia Allen that she also understood the pressures of sudden fame, which the smash hit brought to its cast, and acknowledged that such pressure could make things messy, as People reported.
The hit Fox series ran from 2005 to 2009 and was followed by a 2016 revival season and a television film.
Callies has a new podcast, Prison Breaking, that she said gave her “the sort of medicine to go back” and get beyond the negative parts of the experience, “despite all of the challenges.”
She said she and former costar Paul Adelstein, who co-hosts the podcast with her, would eventually discuss it in more depth. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
