Bailey Taylor

It's such a great one.

Isn't it?

And so the episode is called The Real Me for anyone who doesn't remember.

It's very iconic.

I don't use that word frequently, but this would be one.

And had you seen it lately or did you rewatch and think like, wow, I forgot about this?

No, I saw it actually really recently.

I saw it a couple of, really just a couple weeks ago as I was actually doing a rewatch for myself, you know, because I just think it's so iconic.

It deserves a rewatch.

I mean, it's one of those ones where this is like the best of the show in that era and also the best of the time.

You know, when we're talking about great, great early 2000s television, you know, this was like really...

Just the gold standard of what television was.

And it was one of those really special episodes where you had amazing guest stars, you know, people playing themselves.

Yes.

Really incredible.

Now, when you did the show at the time, what was your awareness of the show or how did you feel about, you know, your part?

And you're like, I feel like you ad-libbed, you brought a lot of yourself to it.

Well, I had been obsessed with the show since the pilot and I was actually sent the pilot before it aired by Carolyn at HBO because she wanted me to write on it because I've been writing scripts and I had a movie script that was kind of out there that was like my spec and it was actually like such a...

you know, kind of perfect entry point into the show.

And so she sent it to me.