00:00Another addition to the cast is using as Merle Dandridge as Amanda Vaughn.
00:03She's scary.
00:04Like, she kind of scares me when I watch her on screen.
00:06Life leaves fingerprints, darling.
00:10Your colleague Brad Noonan is in prison.
00:12Your client has been indicted, followed soon after by my dear friend Leo Drummond.
00:16But you, you somehow emerged without a scratch.
00:20She's fierce.
00:20She's phenomenal.
00:21She has such a soul to her, which is, like, beautiful.
00:23In a performance like this, when she's playing somebody who is on the surface,
00:27very kind of closed off and weathered by the system,
00:31to have somebody who has access to, you know, a soulfulness is really quite poetic and lovely.
00:38But I would say this is where we have, like, incredible women in our show this season,
00:40as we did last season.
00:42But, like, you know, between you and Maddie, Libby, Moke, Karen, I mean,
00:45we have such an incredible, and it changes the energy on set in a really positive way, I think.
00:49I think it balances it better.
00:52Merle's special, though, because, you know, she comes from Broadway.
00:54So, like, she knows how to fill a big, gigantic theater, so she can really own a courtroom.
01:00Like, it's kind of spectacular to watch her in action.
01:01She owns the well.
