Da'Vine Joy Randolph

right away yeah and so part of my process was like so interesting what's her level of addiction and in certain times and what she's going through I wanted the smoking to signify what like psychologically was going on for her so and then the big the biggest most difficult the two difficult things most difficult things about filming and smoking timing of knowing when to like how to pace the

of the, between the talking and when to pull.

Right.

And blowing that smoke.

So it's not in your face for the camera, unless there's some moments where you want it to get in or not like directing that smoke was tricky.

And I'm going to watch all of your smoking choices.

We could have a beautifully acted scene.

And Alexander would be like, that smoke went in Paul's face.

Paul's face.

Do it again.

And then the last thing was the dialect, which he was like, it's fine.

He said it was fine.

He was like, you're from Philadelphia.

It's cool.

And I was like.

No, sir.

And he was adamant about it.

Yeah, I went with Nicole Kidman's dialect coach, who's the best and so down to earth.

But yeah, I said, no, no, no, no, no.

So what did you have to learn about me?