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Jessica Williams opens up about what she calls a "gift" of a scene in "Shrinking." She explains the character work behind Gaby's reaction to Louis and how she hopes audiences can relate to the raw emotion portrayed.
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00:00Basically, I was telling Brett to leave and go do Ted Lasso again.
00:07And what a cool way to do it.
00:08I was like, you have to go do, you have to go write for Ted Lasso, bro.
00:11Get out of here.
00:13But there was this talk in season two,
00:16because that is when it's big, big, big movements for Alice and Jimmy
00:21of forgiving Brett's character, Louis.
00:25For me, I did not feel like Gabby would feel that way,
00:29the way those two are allowed to feel.
00:31And that actually happens all the time.
00:33What a gift to be able to play a scene like that.
00:35And I think Brett wrote that episode.
00:37I think Zach Braff directed that episode.
00:41Our crew was very silent when I came in to do that scene.
00:46And they held the room for me in a way,
00:49because normally we're joking, and they're super professional,
00:52but we're normally doing bits.
00:53It just felt like unleashing.
00:57It just felt like something that this character needed to do.
01:00And I think hopefully people watch it,
01:03and they feel they can relate to that.
01:06And they're not like,
01:06why is this girl telling this guy to get out of here and do Ted Lasso?
01:09What a dick!
01:10You know, it's like, no, that guy killed her best friend.
01:12Any way I thought about somebody killing my best friend for Gabby,
01:15who was such a heart-led person,
01:16I was like, no, she would want this guy out of her face.
01:20Brett is someone who is really giving.
01:23You know, he created the show, he writes on the show,
01:25he's in the writer's room every day.
01:27On top of that, he does stand-up, he does all these things.
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