Paz de la Huerta: Women Don’t Like Her

In her NY Times interview, “Devil in a Black Dress,” Boardwalk Empire actress Paz de la Huerta couldn’t talk much about what’s going on with her character Lucy Danziger in the next season of Boardwalk Empire. All she would say was “… hopefully some of these women who resent me for being naked or in little to nothing will be pleased that I’m knocked up, and they’ll pay attention to the performance.”

On attracting the “enmity of many women,” she remarked “Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves. …”

Well maybe, and maybe not. Maybe women like to to project their hatred of all the trashy, sexy gals who have cast their eyes upon their men on the character of Lucy Danziger. And it’s also a pretty safe bet that most female viewers would rather see Nucky Thompson with Margaret than with Lucy.

As Lucy asked: What does Margaret have that she doesn’t? Well, Margaret is more intelligent and she’s got more class even if she is little too sneaky, peeping into Nucky’s papers and hiding the Lysol so she doesn’t get pregnant.

Even though Lucy negligently failed to have any Lysol on hand for her impromptu tryst with Agent Van Alden, we still don’t want anything really bad to happen to her. We don’t want Lucy to suffer the fate of Agent Sebso, the last person who thought he could cross Van Alden and live to tell.

Whatever is in store for Lucy this season, we can’t see her getting Nucky back.