Julia Washington

Yeah.

It's just...

It just demonstrates her control and not allowing her daughter to like be comfortable or herself or the career to happen in the way that it's going to naturally.

I mean, I don't know.

Right.

Like, yeah.

In terms of like how we don't know how Hayden's career would have progressed if it weren't for her mom.

At the same time, it's shit like this that you're just like, should Brian Cranston said she's bad for the role.

You should honor that.

Yeah, because at one point she does say, like, acting and performing equals love because it gets her the attention that she's looking for.

Acting was where I got praise.

Acting was where I got love.

That's what she says in the book.

at such a young age, five, six, seven years old, and can riff in that way and cry on cue, it's almost like she was never going to have a chance to be a little kid.

I just felt so bad for her.

I feel so bad for her, too.

It's not her job to manage her parents' emotions, and they don't understand that.

At least her mother didn't understand that from the perception she's giving us in the book.

Like, I understand wanting to, like—

share how you're feeling and like you know your dad that's this horrible thing but there's a way to present it to your child who has a completely different relationship with that parent than you do yeah oh my gosh and also having to have this realization that your dad isn't this perfect person that you had put on a pedestal so like navigating that alone yeah