#jill winternitz

'...You’ve featured in the television adaptations of both Good Omens and The Sandman, so you’re a familiar face for many fans of Neil Gaiman! Did you feel that sense of familiarity when approaching The Sandman, or did the differing tones of both stories and the contrasting roles you were given mean that your experience working on each of them was very different?

“I had no idea when I was cast as Harriet Dowling in Good Omens that I would have the privilege of inhabiting yet another of Neil Gaiman’s incredible worlds years later. Neil is one of the most exciting, courageous, and brilliant minds of our time, and I always feel so exhilarated stepping onto one of his sets. Good Omens and The Sandman are very distinct tonally, as were my roles, which contributed to the experiences feeling very different to each other. It’s quite a thrill being able to play characters that are so contrasting. I mean, can you imagine Harriet Dowling having coffee with The Good Doctor?”

Is it challenging to take on such iconic stories which are already loved by a huge fanbase? How do you approach that, and what has it been like for you to see the fan reception to the adaptations of The Sandman and Good Omens?

HER

The Good Doctor in The Sandman

WHY was she so compelling, I ask you? Why was she so captivating? She was just so... confident and competent and capable and I would. I would want her to be the chair of my cereal convention. (That's not a euphemism for something weird. OR IS IT.)

I couldn't keep my eyes off her and I loved watching her and her on-screen chemistry with The Corinthian was I don't even know out of control. Like there were a few times when they just looked at each other and I was like whatishappening.

Anyway I love her and this has been an unhinged appreciation post for The Good Doctor and Jill Winternitz.

From the DVD commentary, episode 1:

Neil: The wonderful thing about Good Omens all the way through was the amount of goodwill. There was love for the book, and people came in because they wanted to do it. You know, Danny [Daniel Mays - Arthur Young] is amazing. There's Nick Offerman [Thaddeus Dowling] who offered to fly himself to South Africa to be in it, and we turned him down and we flew him, but he came to South Africa for two days of shooting in a tiny part, because he loved Good Omens, because he wanted to do it.

well

so

i like to think that the sandman and good omens are in the same universe. obviously everyone jumps to haha lucifer is crowleys boss BUT HEAR ME OUT

even more interesting would be. so. the actress who plays harriet dowling (warlocks mom) in good omens is jill winternitz. the serial killer who goes by “the good doctor” in the sandman is also jill winternitz. AND in the sandman her real name is never used.

i think it would be SO FUNNY if warlock dowlings mother, wife of the US ambassador, was a serial killer who runs a convention for other serial killers. and theres nothing contradictory about thinking it!!

think about it: the good doctor clearly has a lot of time, money, and resources at her disposal. she can travel wherever she want easily, can afford tools for murder and would have easy disposal locations. plus, her thing is that she keeps organs from her victims. you have to be educated and be able to afford good quality medical equipment.

harriet dowlings husband is always away working. her son was raised full time by nanny astoreth and brother francis. she had tons of money and education. she had easy travel whenever she wanted.

The Good Doctor and Nimrod [the bald guy and the lead planner] Look at each other with alarm.

The Good Doctor immediately says

"You may want to advise the kid to stay clear of the conventional areas” 

There’s a touch of concern, 

A very worried look from Nimrod, which he tries to smile through, 

A very poignant look from the Doctor. 

They are  both in their own ways are  trying to tell him that Funland is a Predator without actually saying it, causing Corinthian to take note and separate Funland from Jed.