00:00Well before we start on episode six I wanted to ask you about the audition process for this
00:04because every single scene that we see Anne in she's just dropping truth bomb after truth bomb
00:10it's uh incredible to watch her come in and and have these very honest but harsh truths to share
00:16with whoever she's talking to. Do you remember the scene you auditioned with? Oh yes I very I
00:21remember very well because I was actually in London on vacation and I got the audition right
00:28before I was getting on my flight to come home I flew on a on a Thursday and landed Thursday
00:36night
00:36and my audition was Friday morning so I took all 11 hours on the plane and I learned my lines
00:43on
00:44the plane and the audition was the rehearsal dinner speech which alone was you know four pages four
00:53page monologue and this the scene in her bedroom at the you know at the wedding um the the scene
01:06when I come in and and basically yeah share my truths and my questions and my concerns about
01:12them getting married. Your own sisters aren't even your maid of honor I just see you doing a lot for
01:18him. I didn't do any of that for him. I see you making your life smaller. What has he compromised
01:24on? This wedding. What else? So it was those two scenes those were my auditions and it was great I
01:32mean
01:32I got to audition live over Zoom with um Brad Simpson and D.B. D. Vicentis and you know I
01:41miss that as an actor
01:43we don't get to do lives very often you know we put things on tape and we don't know should
01:48we be
01:48going this way or going that way and um and because I couldn't do very much research on her before
01:55my
01:55audition I just had to go with what was on the page and what was on the page was already
01:59so beautiful and
02:00so well written that I was like oh okay I'll just I'm a mom I know how to do this
02:05and that's what I
02:06went with. It's a hard speech to watch because there's so many notes that you hit um she's
02:11obviously happy in a way for her daughter but so scared. John's life was just so big and I worried
02:19how could Carolyn how could anyone manage to maintain their own center of gravity around something that
02:27massive. Were there any key emotions that you wanted to pull through for that monologue that you were
02:35hoping kind of felt like the resounding emotion above all else? You know for me what I've really
02:43tried to lead with with Ann uh is the simplicity of the strength of her words and the strength of
02:53her
02:53honesty because she was an elementary teacher and I just kept thinking like she's an elementary teacher
03:01she talks to young children all the time right and so she comes already from a very patient
03:11grounded space but when she's talking not only to her daughter but then talking to a room full of
03:20people that are larger than life in her own ideas right uh combining those two you know I mean
03:31I think also the fact that she had a speech written and then doesn't do the speech written and then
03:38just goes from the heart it kind of allows those emotions to unfold with every word she says and
03:45you know I think surprising herself emotionally at the end is is what happens when you speak from the
03:51heart you don't know what's going to get you. And we don't know what her initial speech looked like
03:56do you have any idea did you kind of build out in your head what she was originally going to
04:00say
04:00versus what she did end up saying? That's a great question because no I didn't. To me I it felt
04:10so much assuming and so much of putting in my own whatever my own version of that would be
04:17that to me what felt more important and most important were the words that she actually said
04:23right and so that's what I wanted to focus on and I wanted those words to have meaning um more
04:31so than
04:32what she would have said. I I think anytime someone speaks off the cuff there is a a little bit
04:38of a
04:39disconnect of the moment of being in the moment and just being in the moment and it's okay if you
04:43forget to say people and it's okay if you mess up um that was that was the energy that I
04:51was you know
04:52feeling like the whole time I I did it was just this energy of like okay you're you made a
04:58choice
04:59and your choice is to just go with your gut and as women we we deny ourselves our own instincts
05:07you
05:07know a lot and our own gut instincts and she was a woman in my opinion of playing her that
05:16didn't like always spoke from her heart and from her gut and from her instinct and
05:21so that is where you know all those layers then come in just from that just from
05:27a real situation I guess. What you would hope someone a daughter your own daughter other daughters
05:34out there would take away from this relationship between these two characters and what she's trying
05:38to tell Carolyn even in the lead up to the wedding? I think that moms get a bad rap we
05:46spend a lot of
05:47our lives saying you know thinking that if someone says like oh you're just like your mother that that's
05:54a bad thing when your mother might have represented strength and uh honesty and you know fighting the
06:03good fight and I think that mothers just want the best for their children and I think some of them
06:15show
06:15it in ways that are difficult. As an outsider I think the Bissette family the Bissette Freeman family
06:24um were very private and they were a family that didn't ask to be you know put in the limelight
06:32or you know their life uh exposed and so I think that just added another element of protection so
06:41you can't fault her for wanting to make sure her daughter was going to be okay right so I guess
06:48you
06:48know I'm not I don't want to sit here and say well well just goes to show you mothers are
06:51always right
06:52um because they're not always right there is a fine line of letting them make their mistakes and
06:57learning from their mistakes but then also just trying to help them maybe get through it. Older
07:03women are supposed to help guide us to the next stage of our life. Yeah I mean it's a really
07:09long
07:09answer to your question but I do think it's complicated right it's just complicated and
07:15but all mothers want is for their kids to be okay.
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