Wit & Attitude Quote by Anna Paquin

Paquin’s charm here is how casually she dismantles the “genre actress” box while still cashing the check from the box office. She frames her career not as a brand (“fantasy gal”) but as a hunt for novelty: “interesting stuff at work” is the actor’s version of a worker’s-rights demand. Don’t hand me a type; give me a task worth doing.

The line does double duty. On the surface it’s breezy, slightly self-deprecating, the kind of answer that plays well in press without alienating fans. Underneath, it’s a neat bit of boundary-setting. She’s validating the appeal of supernatural projects (“really crazy, fun things”) while refusing to make them her identity. That “particularly” at the end is doing a lot of work: it softens the refusal, keeps the door cracked, signals she’s not above the material but not owned by it.

Context matters because “supernatural” has been a career accelerant and a career trap. TV and franchise ecosystems can turn performers into permanent residents of a single fandom, with the perks (devoted audiences) and the limits (casting assumptions, creative repetition). Paquin’s phrasing insists on craft over category: she’ll use genre as a playground, not a home address.

It’s also a subtle defense of genre work that doesn’t sound defensive. She implies the best reason to take those roles isn’t lore or escapism; it’s the permission structure. The supernatural becomes a production excuse for risk, weirdness, heightened emotion - the very things realist drama often polices.