This was a challenging part because Todd had different ideas, so if I had arrived on the set to play it straight up—a clichéd guy who shouts, "I'm pissed off, my wife wants another woman, you're destroying the house, f— you"—that probably would have caused issues once I got there.

However, it's also not very realistic. Because there is a relationship—Harge and Carol were in love when they were married. In my imagination, Harge also got a feeling that something was happening before any other woman did. And since he didn't want to ruin his environment, Harge might have put on blinders in the first place and done nothing about it.

Finally, because it's in the open, it becomes too much: There's this young woman, and his wife is starting to distance herself. At that time, he begins to ask, "What can I do to stop this from happening?" Although he doesn't actually turn violent, I believe there is always a potential that he might.

He is losing his child, his family, and the lady he loves, and his heart is broken. What can he do, though? He is no longer loved by the woman.

That didn't occur to me. It is laid out in the script. It's out there. And that's what made me think that Harge is somehow letting this go; he can allow some aspects of this to persist in his world and still be functional as long as he can maintain it. Since it's the 1950s, I also believe Harge may have been abroad. He was in the war, I wrote [in my backstory notes]. Additionally, it gives him a new perspective on everything he observed there. And that was a part of his world, I believe. It provided him with an alternative perspective to what others would have.