How Janet McTeer ended up wearing "that fabulous wig" on Jessica Jones

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"Originally, they wanted me to use my own hair, which is short and relatively blonde from something else I’d been doing," the actress tells Vulture. "I felt like it had no threat in it, nothing scary about it. I just kept thinking, We’re going to see this woman do all these murders, and it would be fun to see something a little more unusual. I suggested that we try like 20 different wigs on, and we put on this long, shaggy wig and everybody went, 'Yep, that’s the one.' It looks slightly dangerous, slightly ex-hippie, slightly like an older Jessica. Kind of like Patti Smith, whom I happen to love. And I wanted a bit of all of that."