Viewers witnessed the multiple layers of lawyer Jeri Hogarth in Season 1 of "Marvel's Jessica Jones," but actress Carrie-Anne Moss seemed as surprised as anyone when learning where Jeri ended up by the last episode, though she seemed to take it all in stride.

“I didn’t know anything,” she says when asked about the darker layers of Jeri. “I had no idea where she was going to go. I feel like she ended kind of humbled. She went through the darkness. She paid the price for the way she was living her life. She was humbled in the end, had some retribution [put on her].”

When the subject of Jeri possibly learning or not learning her lesson after her ordeal in the show, Moss believes that either way could be fun.

“It’s up to [the writers],” she notes. “Probably the more interesting choice would be that she hasn’t learned a lot, because it’d be interesting to play that. I trust the writers and I trust they will create something great for me [in Season 2].”

Does Moss ultimately see her character as a more selfish person than anything?

“She’s all about her own needs,” she says. “And her sexual needs. She’s willing to sacrifice everything in her life for this young woman she’s hot and heavy for. But it all ties into her sense of power, that she’s so used to doing things the way she wants and taking what she wants to take, and that she could use Kilgrave.

“I’m not sure she believed he had that power until it happens to her. How could you really believe that? No one really believes that until they’ve been affected by his power, his manipulation. She just really felt like she was above anyone else and that no one could touch her. She was used to living her life like that. And then she pays the price. She pays the ultimate price. People die because of the choices she makes - her selfishness kills people and she has to live with that.”

That power and sexuality stand as a link that defines the lawyer, Moss believes, as well as what she calls a “mid-life deal.”

“Which sounds so clichéd,” she admits, “But Jeri’s willing to destroy her life as she knows it in order to have something new. We see it all the time; people do that. I often thought during the shooting that maybe she’d get back together with her wife. ‘Oh God, is this really what she’s going to do?’ But I think it comes across [on screen] that it’s her sexuality, her need for this young woman, but I think it’s about power. With her wife it was a lot of years in, but [now] she feels alive.”

That power may also affect her view of Jessica Jones, the series main character.

“I never felt Jeri ever felt threatened [by Jessica],” muses Moss. “She felt equal. [There were] a few moments when she saw Jessica’s strength that were 'Whoa!' but I don’t think Jeri gets in a room with anybody and doesn’t feel like she can’t take them down. And that includes Jessica Jones. I love their scenes together because they really did meet each other. And I think it was fun to see that. Jeri was the only one, other than Kilgrave, that was a totally different dynamic [for Jessica]. With Jeri and Jessica, it's toe-to-toe; neither of them was backing down.”

By the end of Season 1, Jeri stepped up and helped Jessica, though before that it only happened when she needed something. Does Moss agree with that assessment?

“Jessica gives Jeri that gift, yes,” she admits. “Jessica says, ‘Okay, sh*thead, you want to feel better about yourself? Get over it.’ She gives her that and then I think Jeri ends up taking it to another level, by then defending Jessica in a way. That’s the gift that Jeri gets. She walks out of Season 1 knowing that she really messed up, but she also did the right thing.”

One may wonder if Jeri’s redeemed herself in Moss’ eyes.

“A little bit,” she says. “But I don’t think you can [completely] redeem to the extreme of what she did. I think a part of it was eased by that action that she took.

“I felt like it was just her doing the right thing. Who knows who she’s going to be in the next moment, because I don’t know. And I think that’s exciting. People do normally revert back to their old ways, but that fact is that she did the right thing. She’s good. She’s a really good lawyer and she knows she’s powerful and she’s smart. She did the right thing; it was the only thing she could do, really."

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