Emily Browning is a Creepy Sexy Zombie in 'American Gods'

Up until the May 21 installment, each episode of Starz’s “American Gods” opened with the introduction of a new deity.

The pilot chronicled Odin’s arrival, in AD 812, to the United States. The second episode focused on African trickster god Anansi and the third on the Egyptian lord of the dead Anubis.

But the self-contained fourth episode, titled “Git Gone,” was told from the point of view of the mortal character Laura Moon. Granted, she’s a reanimated corpse who has to drag her decaying body home from the grave she was recently buried in, but, despite these supernatural roots, the story is all too human.

In fact, the script from “Git Gone” was what convinced Emily Browning to take the role of the recently deceased wife of main character Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle).

“I fell in love with Laura immediately,” Browning said over the phone recently. “I’ve certainly never been offered a role like this — someone who is just really not automatically likable in any way.”

Read the rest of this article at the Los Angeles Times.

Emily Browning has also appeared in Pompeii and Sucker Punch.