In Season 4, Episode 18, “Smooching and Smushing,” Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) and Trevor (Asher Grodman) attempt to teach Flower a lesson by showing her how having money would corrupt even her charity-driven heart. But Flower sees right through their scheme and is able to outsmart Trevor — and outbid him for his favorite movie memorabilia — so she can have even more money to donate. Of her big mic drop moment, Carrasco said, “It wasn’t too hard because it was so well written. It really was. That whole storyline was so succinct.”
She went on to share how much she enjoyed getting to dig into a deeper shade of Flower while playing something that matters so much to her character. She told Collider:
“I realize I was only in three scenes total, but the amount of the journey I got to take on the whole thing really helped that final scene pay off, because I came into it with very strong opinions about what Trevor should spend his money on. And then he hurt my feelings, you know, by saying things like, ‘You’ve never had any money, so you don’t know what to do with it.’ And it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m poor, but whatever, just because I’m poor, you think you’re smarter than me?’ And then that helped kind of propel the little twist in the knife at the end, because I finally got to make him feel like a lot of people in the house sometimes make Flower feel, you know?
It felt good as an actor to be able to play that shade of her that I don’t often get to play, but with something that she felt so deeply about – about capitalism and him learning that, yeah, it isn’t fair. And yeah, I can do this. I can play by your rules. If you want to play by your rules, like, how does it feel? You know? And so it felt so timely, when we have billionaires going into space and everything like that, it might as well be the ice skates or whatever. So all I had to do was kind of think a little bit of like, how Sheila was already feeling a little bit about the whole thing. And it felt very easy to do. And how fun.”
Carrasco revealed that she nearly played into a softer side, with Flower being pleased that Trevor learned his lesson, but she decided, “No, no, she can ride a little high on this for a little while, you know?” She went on to explain that because we don’t know if Flower actually donated the $10k that she got out of Trevor, she may get to do something fun with it in Season 5. “What I’m really excited about is now Flower has this money. We don’t know if she’s actually donated it,” said Carrasco. “I think it gives her a little bit of power in the house. She’s got a lot of back rubs, and she’s got a lot of money to spend.”
Sheila Carrasco Got Flower’s Monologue From Season 4, Episode 13, “Ghostfellas” Out in One Take
