Monica Lewinsky

Watching her grow up at an age where I was, you know, just old enough to realize that that's a baby.

And I had fear for I'd never had like a motherly instinct for a child before, obviously.

Yeah.

And watching her like experience Christmas for the first time or like events or losing her first tooth or whatever.

When I had been at an age where I was so over that, I was like getting over those things.

And Christmas was like less magical to me.

And seeing how magic life was to her really inspired me.

Through life, through acting, being so inspired by her unselfconsciousness and trust for people, which I've had a hard time with.

So I think, yeah, just reclaiming that part of myself and reminding myself to tap into that as much as I can.

One thing that I'm reclaiming is my sense of humor.

What role has humor played for you?

Well, I've always had a sense of humor.

And I feel like, again, one of the ways that I'm very lucky is that I...

I automatically or intuitively sort of try to, I see the absurd in the situation and I laugh about it.

Like, you know, a great example of this is when I first came home from prison, you know, in prison you don't, you have like, you know, plastic cutlery.

Like you don't, like you don't have anything that could remotely be used as a weapon.

And one of the first things that my family did is we finally just like landed back at my, you know, my aunt's house as they pull out this big cake and they hand me a huge knife and they're like, cut the cake.

And I'm like, you sure about that?

And it's just like, you just gotta laugh at the absurdity of it.

Like you have to have a sort of dark sense of humor to like release the valve because like in that moment I could have reacted in one of two ways.