Roseanne makes an offhanded comment in an interview about having a crush on the girl she hated in high school, and things spiral from there by corvuscorvidae on ao3.
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“What you up to?” Jisoo asked, sticking her head through the door, and Jennie looked up, frowning.
“What does it look like? This is a mess, did Miller even go over-” Jennie began, looking back down to the forty page document she had in front of her. Project Zero was going to run them into the ground if they didn’t get a handle on it, and that was excluding any fines they picked up along the way for poor practice and risky business practices and-
“Yeah, great, we can talk about that later. Have you been online today?” Jisoo didn’t waste time, walking into Jennie’s office, closing the door behind her and moving towards the desk.
“No,” Jennie said, slowly. She’d woken up late, hitting the snooze button one too many times, and hadn’t had a chance to delve further than her work email.
“Well, got something you might like to see.” Jisoo, ever the polite one, pushed Jennie’s work aside and began to take over the mouse and keyboard, loading up a new browser and searching.
Roseanne Park on the record off the chart full interview
“This went up this morning,” Jisoo explained, finding the website she was looking for.
“Why do you think I’ll want to see this?” Jennie asked, frowning still.
She did her best to avoid any and everything that was Roseanne Park.
“Trust me.” As if Jennie did anything else.
A video appeared on the page, and after a second of buffering, the image came up of Roseanne. She looked every bit the same as she did in high school, and Jennie shot Jisoo a look, wondering what the purpose of this really was.
“You can watch the full thing later if you’re interested, but the bit you really need to see is from seven nineteen.” With a few clicks, Jisoo had the video loading from there, and then she hit play, stepping back, letting Jennie watch.
“Okay, so, we have to ask, what about your character’s mean streak? I mean, she hates people. She despises some of the other characters, how easy or hard is that for you to do?” the interviewer asked, and Jennie struggled to remember his name.
Roseanne was taking a drink from her water bottle as he spoke, but smiled and nodded, swallowing, towards the end.
“Oh, they’re fun, some are actually hard. When working with Joy, I find it hard. I don’t like being mean to her, but we have a laugh and the second they yell cut we’re back to being friends,” Roseanne explained, and Jennie looked back to Jisoo to see what the fuss was about.
Jennie didn’t watch Roseanne’s show. She didn’t follow her career. This was not of any interest to her.
“What do you use to get yourself into that frame of mind? Do you pull that hatred from somewhere else in your life like a bad ex or...?”
“No, not at all. I actually get back in the mindset of seventeen year old Roseanne Park-”
“You hated people when you were seventeen?”
“Doesn’t everyone?” Roseanne asked, smiling, before shaking her head. “Seventeen year old me didn’t hate people, I hated one person in particular, and I initially struggled to get into those scenes with the venom needed, but calling on that time of my life, that person, I was able to nail it.
“Who was this person?” the interviewer asked, smiling, as if loving this turn of events.
Jennie could already feeling her stomach rolling.
