Natalie Joy

Exactly that.

We were like, oh, okay.

Yeah.

Great idea.

Yeah.

Keep your head up.

And so my heart exploded in that moment when he like looked into my soul and was like, keep your head up.

Like, you know, that is above my pay grade in terms of all that went into selecting our hero.

And that's also you'll hear me refer to him as hero because it's important for all of us to to point out like he was never considered like the mark or the joke.

Like he really was someone that from day one was revered and was treated with that kind of reverence, you know.

So very important that he's never the butt of the joke, right?

He's just sort of

the calm amidst this crazy chaotic storm.

But I think above all, they were looking for someone who was willing to see the good in things, who didn't want to delve too deep into stuff and was like, okay, yeah, my general outlook on life is a positive one.

And I think that that's why Anthony was able to connect with not just Dougie, but so many other characters in this show and really became...

the dougie's uh company retreat person oh lisa gilroy lisa gilroy yeah yeah christine was her character's name that's lisa gilroy she is like one of the funniest people on the planet and yeah that was probably the moment so i would i was never worried about breaking in the moments where i was supposed to be serious like

you know dougie jr's on stage the grandma's rocking out on that guitar real hard he got the jerk off so like that's ridiculous and then um again something i'm proud of improvising of like i want my sauce inside of you and i want my sauce inside of you fun fact i did that for about 30 seconds where i just kept going you sir in the back i want my sauce inside of you and ma'am don't think i forgot about you i want my sauce inside of you ma'am um

So those moments where Dougie was the focal point and this is a big moment in Dougie's life, I wasn't really concerned about breaking there.

I was really locked in.

But yeah, the moments where I'm sort of just amidst the rest of the ensemble and Lisa, when she sang that song, I was like...