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Krysten Ritter recently joined the ever-expanding Marvel universe as superheroine Jessica Jones in a brand new (and extremely anticipated) Netflix series, intriguingly titled A.K.A. Jessica Jones. The show will see Ritter's Jones picking up after her superhero days are long behind her — well, maybe — as she attempts to carve out a new life for herself as a private eye. Ritter spoke to Cosmopolitan.com just this morning, at a junket for her upcoming movie, Tim Burton's charmingly off-kilter Big Eyes, and gamely answered a few questions about her exciting new TV role. [Note: A more complete version of this interview will run next week, ahead of the release of Big Eyes.]

Were you a comic book fan before you got the role of Jessica Jones?

I wasn't. It's so brand new! This is like my first interview. I wasn't, but I am now reading the Jessica Jones comics and devouring them. And [I'm] hooked. I don't think I've been so hooked on something since Serial. So now I feel that way about the Jessica Jones series. I can't wait. I mean, as soon as we're done today, that's what I am going to be doing. I'm really excited about Jessica Jones. It's so fucking cool. It's so cool. I can't wait to watch it.

And you're going to be working with a female showrunner, Melissa Rosenberg.

Fuck yeah. My favorite. It's crazy, because I remember, like, six years ago, I was like, "I just want to work with female directors and female showrunners; there's none." And I feel like, since then, I've exclusively worked with women, which I love. I worked with Amy Heckerling, Kat [Coiro], Jessica Goldberg, Leslye Headland, Nahnatchka Khan, the creator of Don't Trust the B--, who is my idol and bar for anything funny. And now Melissa! It's a dream come true.

It's such a wonderful range of talents.

Wonderful range of talents, a variety of talents. I'm a big champion for female directors and female showrunners, just fucking rad, strong women. I'm happy to be in company with them, I'm happy to be in the trenches with them.

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