Alanis Morissette Rocks Nip/Tuck

Alanis Morissette’s multi-episode turn as Poppy, an anesthesiologist who romances resident lesbian Liz (Roma Maffia) on Nip/Tuck begins tonight on F/X. In an interview with TV Guide.com, Morissette talks about the role and why homophobia is stupid:

TV Guide: This role is a departure for you, isn't it?
Alanis Morissette: This is definitely against type. I feel like Poppy is my shadow self, everything that I try not to be — controlling, micromanaging, projecting all kinds of dysmorphic body issues onto your partner rather than owning your own self.

TV Guide: But do you like the character?
Morissette: I love how despicable she is on the outside. I like playing characters who [are] easy to hate and write them off from the onset, but eventually you see other layers of this human being.

TV Guide: How did you get the role?
Morissette: [Nip/Tuck creator] Ryan Murphy was speaking with my agent, and said that when he had written the role of Poppy, he thought of me.

TV Guide: Why you?
Morissette: I had a lesbian role on Sex and the City where I ended up kissing Sarah Jessica Parker. This, though, feels like a more fleshed-out relationship, more than that cameo.

TV Guide: You kiss Liz, right? [Maffia described it as "just a playful one, no tongue."]
Morissette: The kiss felt so natural; there was nothing uncomfortable about it. We live in a homophobic culture — if it were two men they would be judged to the nth degree, but with women it is "hot." What I love about this is this seems real.

Read the interview (including a tidbit about Morissette’s hottie beau Ryan Reynolds) in its entirety here.