Hetty is learning to let loose on Season 2 of “Ghosts.” During Thursday’s episode, Rebecca Wisocky’s character is introduced to the joys of sexual exploration when Flower (Sheila Carrasco) teaches her that she can find pleasure in the broken dryer at Woodstone Mansion.
The story is just another hilarious example of Hetty’s hidden desire to free herself from the constraints that came with being a robber baron’s wife in the late 1800s.
“I love doing physical comedy, and I love all the ways in which Hetty is ridiculous,” Wisocky told TheWrap of her character on the CBS sitcom. “She means well sometimes, and sometimes she doesn’t mean well. She’s a mess of contradictions.”
While she may not be possessing anymore living people this season, Wisocky teases that there is definitely more in store for Hetty and her secret mission to let her hair down. Read below for more.
How did you react when you read the script for this episode?
Oh, my jaw dropped. I was so excited. I mean, I love doing physical comedy, and I love all the ways in which Hetty is ridiculous. She means well sometimes, and sometimes she doesn’t mean well. She’s a mess of contradictions. That’s very fun to play as an actor, and especially fun because there’s so many great matchups in our house of unlikely friendships. The matchup between Flower and Hetty was so delicious — arguably the most liberated woman you can imagine, Flower, consulting with stick in the mud Hetty.
I found it really amusing that, even after learning that she doesn’t need a man for pleasure, Hetty still assumed she needs a man to build the washing machine.
Hetty is so cunning, and yet misses the obvious so often.
Can you tease what else might be in store for Season 2?
The writers are doing a beautiful job letting things unfold in surprising ways and still holding back some big, juicy secrets. There’s those big group scenes, which are so much fun to play. But we also break break into smaller ghost groupings and little unlikely matches and friendships. I think the audience enjoy what comes up that.
Last season we saw Hetty and Sam start to work on their relationship a bit. Is there more of that this season?
You’ll definitely see more of that. Samantha has had, as we learned, a very difficult relationship and a somewhat unresolved relationship with her mother. I think we can assume that Hetty had a probably very fraught relationship with her own children, and I think that there’s a kind of surrogacy mother-daughter relationship that’s budding there.
No more Hetty possessions this season?
No more possession for Hetty, but that’s not to say that the ghosts won’t try to make some sort of possession happen this year.
Can you elaborate?
You’ll see later on in the season that Hetty’s trying to accidentally. She hovers over Jay any time he’s plugging in the lamp. She’s not sure how it works, but would certainly love to eat more Cheetos. It was enjoyable to watch an actor as talented as Utkarsh get to channel this lady from the Gilded Age. One thing that’s so exciting about it is that you got to see the inner, deepest desires of my character. Now that she has the body and can intellectually interact with things and places, you see how voracious she is. She wants to eat all the Cheetos and drink all the wine and drive to Paris. That appetite is something that she has, and she will look for a way this season to to fulfill it in different ways.
So, she’s looking to let loose.
She’s got a whole whole lot of pent up confused energy, I will say that. So this season she explores how to handle that.
“Ghosts” airs Thursdays at 8:30/7:30c on CBS and streams on Paramount+.
