Monica Lewinsky

She goes, wait.

Bathroom is one of our words too?

I've been saying that to everybody.

Oh my God.

Yeah, our family, it was, I can't believe I'm gonna say this on a podcast, but it was like a gassy, and I hate the F word for that, so I don't use it, but was a puk.

Puk, baby.

Yeah, it was like, who puked?

Exactly.

Now Sarah Paulson.

I mean, I remember my mom saying things to me like when I was on the phone with different friends, she's like, I can always tell who you're on the phone with based on how you sound.

Oh, wow.

And she was like, it was always changing.

So it's like, on the one hand, I'm like, does that make me a sociopath?

Or does that make me totally crazy?

Or is it that thing that like...

I was left alone a lot as a child.

I was raised by a single mom and my sister and I were separated for a time and she was living with my dad in Florida and then in Maryland and I was living with my mom and I was alone a lot.

So like a way in which I think I survived the fear, the terror I felt as a young person was to constantly sort of be whatever anybody needed me to be in any scenario so that I could always somehow create safety for myself.

And so, like, I really feel the incredible consequence of this is that it has made me, as an actor, I think, capable of shapeshifting a little bit more than your average person, maybe.

Not more than your average actor, but maybe more than your average person, which lends itself to some of my creative impulses, choices, and willingness to do something so vastly different from myself.