Jennifer Morrison

There was no conversation of will I or won't I read for it.

It was like, yes, send the material and let me get working on it.

Oh, wow.

And then it was very intimidating material because I had to learn a certain amount of

Arabic?

I don't even remember.

I think that's what it was.

And I had to figure out how to find just a like a sturdier place in myself than what I was normally asked to do as an actor.

Like

oftentimes we're asked, especially I think on television as women, to like be likable.

Like you need to be likable so people want you in our living room.

And there were really rough edges of this character where to do it right, I had to unlearn that habit.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And so that felt dangerous going into a room, trying that for the first time and also hoping that all these words came out of my mouth in the right way.

And also, you know, reading for someone who was really a hero to me, you know, was just writing some stuff that I admired so much that it was, it's the last time I remember being like deeply nervous to do something.

Honestly, I don't know.

I

Well, I know how to be on a set is like the bottom line.

I say that as a director, you know what I mean?