Laverne Cox

I put in a ceiling fan.

What a joy.

It's interesting.

I've never just listened to that scene.

I've watched it, but I've never just listened to it.

What a joy it was working with George.

I just go back to how incredibly funny he was, but also how sensitive he was and how... Oh, just...

It was glorious.

And it's very, very loosely based on my life.

And the sort of question is, like, what if Laverne never became famous and had a father and went back home to Mobile?

It was the writing of it, the creating of this series, like first with Dan Ewing, our co-showrunner and co-creator, and then with George, like for years before we got a deal, that part was fun.

Coming up with storylines and episodes and pulling things from my life, that was fun.

But when it was time to actually act it and relive it, I was triggered immediately.

Again, hello, Trigger.

I was triggered a lot because we added a lot of things for my life.

And we gave George a lot of the characteristics that my mother has.

I mean, my mother's funny, but she's not that funny.

So, oh, George is hilarious.

And so, yeah, I never obviously had a father in my life.

So we had to endow that.