Jennifer Morrison

And it's like someone's going to be picking at you, putting makeup on your face, talking to you.

A boom's been in your face.

An airplane's going to go overhead.

The camera's going to sound noisy.

There's going to be wind, rain, weather.

It might be cold and you're pretending it's hot.

You know, it's like so many elements that you have to consider.

Yeah, so learn your lines with the music blasting and the television on and someone trying to call you.

Learn with distraction.

That's such great advice.

That's the stuff that I get excited to offer because I just feel like the trial and error of all the things I had to learn on the fly through all these crazy adventures and just being like, how can I help you skip all this?

How can I just get you to the end and make it better for you?

I mean, it was pretty traditional, actually.

I knew that there was a character coming up that I could be right for.

I got a call from my agents who were like, they're very interested, but Dan makes everybody read.

And I was like, yeah, of course.

I think nowadays everybody reads for everything.

But back then, there was a little bit more of like, oh, you've been on shows forever, maybe it's an offer and all that stuff.

But I also was looking at the character and thinking, I wouldn't assume I could do this based on my previous work.

It's one thing if it was like, we'd like you to play an immunologist doctor.