Claire Danes

I was also very sure the day after it aired, there was like a screening party.

It was going to be a problem for me to ride the subway because I was going to be so famous.

And it was fine.

Everybody was fine.

No, it was pretty comfortable still for me.

Now, you brought up My So-Called Life.

How old were you when you auditioned for that?

I was 13 when I did the pilot.

Dang.

And then it didn't get picked up.

Yeah.

And I had gone to public school my whole life, but then like had made money from these acting jobs and could afford to send myself to private school.

So I went to Dalton.

And but yeah, then in the very start of my freshman year, we got this call saying, oh, no, they are going to pick it up.

So I was only physically there for a semester.

And then we were off to L.A.

and was kind of tutored from that point on.

Yeah, I remember reading the pilot, I guess before the audition, and

And just having a very profound, you know, experience.

And it was really powerful to have some woman, some writer person so perfectly articulate my internal life.