The character is permanently bewildered, but Danes refuses to play her as a ditz.
She dropped her blonde ditz act, strode on stage in a stunning red dress and sang a moving song about the mother who abandoned her.
The ditz on the cell phone didn't bother to signal when slowing down for a right turn.
In the first season, she's portrayed as a tomboyish ditz.
She seems to take most everything in good humor, and might even come off as a ditz.
Sayla is a bit of a ditz, often oblivious to the action going on around her and possessing an obsession for the cakes she loves to bake.