Kate Flannery

So I would say if you're improvising, even within a sitcom, you have to know the parameters so that you're actually…

You're bringing a gift, not presenting a problem.

4%, maybe 5% is improv. Interesting. Steve and Rain probably improvised a little more than most of us, but they also had more to say. Sure. So we would kind of hit the actual script, and then I learned quickly that if I improvised within my lines or had one little addition while I was speaking... Because you're having to deal with camera guys who are like documentarians who are moving to...

4%, maybe 5% is improv. Interesting. Steve and Rain probably improvised a little more than most of us, but they also had more to say. Sure. So we would kind of hit the actual script, and then I learned quickly that if I improvised within my lines or had one little addition while I was speaking... Because you're having to deal with camera guys who are like documentarians who are moving to...

4%, maybe 5% is improv. Interesting. Steve and Rain probably improvised a little more than most of us, but they also had more to say. Sure. So we would kind of hit the actual script, and then I learned quickly that if I improvised within my lines or had one little addition while I was speaking... Because you're having to deal with camera guys who are like documentarians who are moving to...

Even if it's a funny idea, it has to go somehow within the lines of forwarding the action or just creating.

Yeah, exactly.

So that was the big learning curve for me, for sure.

And also, because I had done so much stage, I was constantly reminded, like, bring it down, bring it down.

And I actually learned a great relationship with the camera, which I had never learned before.

They know who they're going to look at and focus on. So you can't just suddenly have an idea and railroad the whole process. You have to be in focus. I didn't think about that. So I always say to actors, if you're improvising, even within a sitcom, you have to know the parameters so that you're bringing a gift, not presenting a problem. Mm-hmm.

They know who they're going to look at and focus on. So you can't just suddenly have an idea and railroad the whole process. You have to be in focus. I didn't think about that. So I always say to actors, if you're improvising, even within a sitcom, you have to know the parameters so that you're bringing a gift, not presenting a problem. Mm-hmm.

They know who they're going to look at and focus on. So you can't just suddenly have an idea and railroad the whole process. You have to be in focus. I didn't think about that. So I always say to actors, if you're improvising, even within a sitcom, you have to know the parameters so that you're bringing a gift, not presenting a problem. Mm-hmm.

And I'm so grateful that they had the patience to go, okay, can you just do it one more time?

Just do it a little less, a little less.

Because sometimes shows, you know, that's, oh, she didn't get it.

You're done.

Bye-bye.

You're gone.

Bye.