00:00you take on very interesting projects and i mean this has high concept but it yet has that reality
00:26of character can you talk about that balance and finding sort of the equilibrium of who she needs
00:32to be versus who you are um i thought that was one thing that was really exciting about it and fun
00:39about it was that you were you know sort of exploring things that a couple were going through
00:44in a marriage in a multiverse story you know it was kind of like real life stuff played out
00:49in this spectacular way um i thought that was a really fun aspect of the show and um and the
00:57second part of your question was was you know because you have to find different elements and
01:03details that speak to you to make it feel real um could you talk about that that's like that for me
01:08the most i love that part of of what we do is like okay here's what we have on paper and what we see
01:17in terms of how she behaves and what we know of her circumstances and and then the kind of
01:21imaginative work of like making choices like what like filling in the gaps in between um to make
01:29that character flesh that out you know in ways that people wouldn't necessarily ever see but just
01:34or know about just for myself making this like making choices for this character um and thinking
01:40about her what might motivate her to behave in that way or or make these decisions or respond in a
01:46certain way that's in the script you know um i love the sort of like reverse engineering of taking
01:51like how a character behaves what we see her do and then thinking about why she did that um and who
01:58she is and then by extension like what she thinks about and and dreams of and is afraid of and all that
02:04kind of stuff for me that's really fun um and i i guess i do it because i feel like that way
02:12you what i'm working i'm just so have i it makes me feel more clear on the person that i'm playing
02:22portraying you know what i mean having it be that concrete i just want to say a couple things
02:27sometimes we ask ourselves the big questions who am i who could i be who might i have been if the
02:36bulls had defeated the pistons in the 1990 conference final just asking we all know our lives
02:45are marked by the choices that we make and while i've never been a fan of regret i will admit to a
02:54certain curiosity about the path not taken it's interesting because it almost sounds existential
03:00like sorry you know the notion of being who we are and how we it's only by being to do we explore who
03:08we truly are um because you talk because that existential element of you know we're only this
03:14way because we make these choices is something that's really sort of talked about in this story
03:19i mean you can't play metaphor no exactly yeah you know that's true it can't play metaphor and i can't
03:26and you can't play like concept so like idea yeah i mean i'm i absolutely even though all that stuff
03:33is sort of it you know the atmosphere of the show and stuff that the that the show is kind of exploring
03:39my character is not exploring that my character is exploring why is my husband acting differently
03:44and why why is he or suddenly have all these different habits and you know and sort of making
03:51unilateral decisions in our in our parenting and in our marriage uh in a way that he never did
03:58before and what does that mean and um so i'm you know even though all that stuff is swirling around
04:03the show as an actor i'm just focusing on kind of that this sort of that woman's day to day
04:08tonight each of you made a choice that determined which version of my show you experienced
04:15you should still have the cards that you didn't choose they're also tickets and you can use them to return
04:21at any point during the next month and take a different path maybe find out if the grass really
04:26is greener thank you to my amazing team you made this possible thank you and thanks to all of you
04:34for coming tonight it means the world salute
04:44what i love that you really brought out and you bring this out in a lot of your characters but it's
04:47very pinpoint here is the behavior of movement you know at one point he can't touch you and you
04:53can't touch him and there's so much said by what's by that space between um or when you have your head
05:00on your son's shoulder all those little like emotive moments really make something and i would think
05:05it's instinctual for you at this point to do some stuff like that uh yeah i mean i i i think i have a i like
05:15like the way i work is sort of like a combination of sort of i start out quite analytical i i analytically
05:25i should say like looking at the script and like this like making decisions and choices and thinking
05:29about it in that way and then on set so it's not that i don't think about it and make some and make
05:38choices but then on set i do like to be kind of available and present and because you can't and you
05:43can't predict it would be boring to sort of make all those decisions and and then box your other
05:49actors into a corner or like tune them out because they weren't you know like feeding what you were
05:55doing it was you know like that's the joy of working with for me of the working with a great
06:00actor like joel is you know it informs what you do and so um you know then it becomes a real interaction
06:08and for me that's that's the most exciting part so um so so there is that there is the part of
06:17for me working that's about sort of surrender to what's happening on on um in that moment
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