Bi-coastal actor, filmmaker calls Brooklyn home
Amy Seimetz covers all bases in hit 'The Girlfriend Experience'
Although a Floridian by birth, Amy Seimetz, the multitalented writer, director and producer of STARZ’s hit series “The Girlfriend Experience,” is a Brooklynite by choice.
Initially attracted to the borough by its cheaper rents, she has lived all over Brooklyn: Bushwick, Gowanus and Williamsburg. Now she’s happily settled in a comfortable Cobble Hill apartment. And she’s a total Brooklyn convert. She loves all the different, distinct neighborhoods, the views from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the abundance of good, affordable restaurants. She even likes the subway; she’s close to the Bergen Street station and the subway is her preferred means of getting around. In fact, she’s told her mother back in Florida that “The world would be a better place if everybody had to take the subway. “They’d learn about diversity, a grudging courtesy and the necessity of patience.” Although she lives out of a suitcase — “The Girlfriend Experience” is shot in Los Angeles — she’s always pleased to return to Brooklyn.
Recently I spoke by phone with Seimetz, who was busily preparing for the start of the second season of the show. (“The Girlfriend Experience” began its new season on Nov. 5.) She had a bad cold and sounded a bit tired, but she was very pleased with and excited about the new season’s series of alternating story arcs.
These are edited excerpts of that conversation: