Over the last half-decade, Laura Linney’s character, Wendy Byrde, has undergone quite a journey on Netflix’s “Ozark.” When the show first launched in 2017, it was anchored more to the perspective of Wendy’s husband, Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), as he cast off his civilian life as a mild-mannered financial advisor and uprooted his family from Chicago to launder money for a Mexican drug cartel in Missouri. Comparisons between “Ozark” and “Breaking Bad” abounded, which initially seemed to leave Linney in the unenviable position of playing second fiddle to Marty as the mere “wife” in a show that was framed more from a male, “Walter White Collar” perspective. Over the…The post The Ozark Scene That Made Wendy’s Character Click For Laura Linney appeared first on /Film.
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