Monica Lewinsky

And get joy by coming to see you in six on Broadway.

Madeline, welcome to Reclaiming.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah.

I'm actually going to dive right in because ever since I learned this about you, I think it might have even triggered me.

But I'm just so curious because I am a rejection-sensitive person, maybe even rejection-sensitive dysphoria.

Maybe I might even have that.

I don't know.

I tried to self-diagnose.

But when I learned that you went on 250 auditions before you landed Riverdale.

How did you find yourself again after each incident and then show back up again?

That's really interesting.

I've seen that, and I know you're producing too, and we'll talk about that later on.

But it's one of the facets of producing that's been interesting to me to see, because I sort of came into the industry late in my career, if you will.

And so I get to see things from a very different lens.

But the whole, you fall in love with the show, you're spending so much time with the writer and showrunner trying to create the pitch, and you're

Every moment, everything, and you get in there and then it doesn't go.

And it's interesting because I sort of feel in some ways like the industry is weirdly designed to kill creativity in a sense.

Because I find myself now, and I haven't even been doing this very long, but I'll find myself sort of thinking, okay, I'm not going to invest as much as I did last time because there's

that felt like such a devastation.