<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"FacebookPinterest\n\n Last night marked the return of Sundance Channel's Rectify, the small, slow-burning drama series about Daniel Holden (Aden Young), a man released from Death Row after nineteen years when new DNA evidence calls his conviction\u2014of the rape and murder of his high school girlfriend\u2014into question. The first season marked the channel's first foray into original scripted programming, and soon attracted notices from critics for its thoughtful and profoundly measured storytelling. We talked to the show's twin beacons of light\u2014Abigail Spencer and Adelaide Clemens\u2014who told us how the show has no intention of speeding up, what they did for fun filming in small town Georgia, and the scenes they would add to our No-Cry Challenge.\n\n GQ: Much as been written about the unhurried way Rectify unfolds\u2014it's not afraid to linger, to work at an \"almost painstakingly slow pace.\" This season, you get four more episodes. What extra stuff did you get to explore?\n\n Adelaide Clemens: In the first season, we definitely found our rhythm. Now we're able to go beyond\u2014to sculpt and test our characters. We haven't been given a booklet of what our characters are all about. We're just finding them ourselves. Like the viewers, we're meeting these people the same way you would in real life\u2014slowly. We give them time to grow on you.\n\n Abigail Spencer: Amantha and Tawney and [Daniel's mother] Janet are these three women in Daniel's life, and it's really interesting how each of them coexists\u2014really, their connection is Daniel. But while the first season was everyone reacting to his release, this time we get to not only learn more about who Daniel actually is, but we'll see people adjusting to him as he finds out who he is. For the people like Amantha, who devoted her life and energy to getting her brother released from death row, the question is: \"Who am I outside of Daniel Holden? And do I like who I am?\"\n\n GQ: Interestingly, while Rectify is about Daniel, it's the female characters that defines the show.\n\n Spencer: I think this is Ray McKinnon's tribute to the women in his own life. He reveres women, he understands women, and he writes women in this really specific, creative, non-stereotyped way.\n\n GQ: You filmed and lived in Griffin, Georgia, population 23,600. How was that?\n\n Clemens: I loved it!\n\n Spencer: She's, like, Miss Griffin.\n\n Clemens: I do kind of know everyone. And I walk their dogs. And I go to church with them.\n\n GQ: Give us the tourist's guide to Griffin. Where do you go to have fun?\n\n Spencer: Well, people live there, work there, grew up there. But nobody's saying, \"We gotta get to Griffin to go to\u2014\" Oh, wait. I got it. The Kroger. It's like if Target and Whole Foods had a baby.\n\n Clemens: People hang out there. They get lunch there. I would meet Larson, one of the locals, for sushi at Kroger.\n\n Spencer: And we all started working out at the same gym, with the same personal trainer, Ron.\n\n Clemens: He's a massive body builder.\n\n Spencer: We'd all be scheduled with him and train together. One time Adelaide's mother came too.\n\n Clemens: And there's the one restaurant in town, Bank Street Cafe.\n\n GQ: Are you happy to be returning to your lives in Los Angeles?\n\n Spencer: Actually, we just wrapped, and...I miss Griffin. There's something about that simple routine that I crave. I crave my Kroger!\n\n Clemens: Getting back to L.A.\u2014that was a culture shock. I couldn't speak. New York too. We went to dinner at Babbo the other night and there were just so many people in one place!\n\n GQ: For such a slow, soulful show, Rectify can pack a sudden emotional punch. And here at GQ, we have a No-Cry Challenge. What would you add to the list of scenes you can't get through without crying?\n\n Spencer: I would be very interested to see if you could get through the first episode of this season.\n\n Clemens: I watch Bridget Jones's Diary, and I cry every time she runs out in the leopard print panties with the tennis shoes on and\u2014[begins crying]\n\n Spencer: Look at her right now! Right now! She's crying right now!\n\n Clemens: [Still crying] It's just so romantic!\n\n Spencer: I'd say Out of Africa, the scene when Meryl gets the news.\n\n Clemens: Oh! And Beaches!\n\n Spencer: Beaches.\n\n Clemens: All of Beaches."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.gq.com/story/rectify-sundance-women>