The 'Flight Attendant' actress is known for playing villains—but this may be her most wicked role yet.
On tonight's episode of Law & Order: SVU, guest star Michelle Gomez took the "overbearing mother" stereotype to an extreme, portraying Connie Parish, a developer tycoon who stops at nothing—not even murder—to keep her son, Martin, under her thumb.
"She is probably one of the most fascinating characters I have played,” Gomez tells Parade. “[But] she is clearly without a redeeming quality in her style of parenting. And she will certainly never win the Best Mother of the Year Award.”The episode opens with Connie and Martin (Joseph Cross) in a therapy session. "I wish I was enough," Connie tells Martin. "I want to matter to you as much as you matter to me. All I ask is for one night a week that’s just us.I need freedom…to be happy," Martin replies. "You control everything, even these sessions. I am asphyxiated by your support."
The average viewer assumes they're an unhappily married couple, which makes the eventual reveal that they're mother and son all the more disturbing. The reveal was just as shocking to me as I think it'll be for the audience," Gomez says. “I kept reading and re-reading [the script] because I couldn't wrap my head around it. It just didn't compute. I kept having to go back and then realize, 'No, that's not her husband, that's her son.'""[That sort of incestuous storyline] feels like one of the last taboos, especially for a show like SVU," she adds.
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