Jean Smart had to be given a crash course in all-things Watchmen after her last-minute casting

The Daily Beast

Smart made her debut on Watchmen Sunday as Laurie Blake, a no-nonsense FBI agent on her second career after retiring her superhero alter-ego, Silk Spectre. “I did love the character of Laurie so much when I read (the script),” she tells The Daily Beast. “You identify with her more than some of the other characters, in a way. But then you realize that she’s a really kind of damaged, depressed, lonely person. The reasons she ends up in the FBI, which you find out later, and the compromises she has made in her life… I just keep thinking of new things about her.” ALSO: Smart takes Watchmen to another level, from great to astonishing.