sunshinetoday:

Finding ways to show Media’s persona while also highlighting the person she is embodying has been a difficult challenge for the series, but Anderson’s impressive performances made it possible, according to co-showrunner Michael Green. Green said that, early on, they talked a lot about how to make her performances both an impression of the celebrity and an embodiment of Media.

“[Anderson] really hit on this idea of how to hybridize the two,” Green said. “That [Media] was using the impression only as a way to make part of her point. When she’s David Bowie, it’s done in a completely different way, and when she’s Marilyn, it’s almost mockingly. She really weaponizes her alterations and vocal quality to make herself as irresistible as possible to the person she is trying to sell. And she is always trying to sell.” (X)