Olivia

It was his number one philosophy that he liked to practice, but it was a very slippery slope.

Emotionally, he would really push us to dangerous places emotionally and have us screaming at each other or bawling our eyes out.

And he's yelling at us and giving us commands.

It was incredibly intense.

Anytime you were in his rehearsal room, it was a way of making us vulnerable.

He would exploit that vulnerability in front of all of our peers and disguise it as teaching us how to act.

Whenever he would let us out of it, like when we would end a scene or end an activity, he would always give us a big hug or tell us something encouraging.

And that felt really good to me.

Knowing that I had his approval felt really good.

But emotionally, he called it scrubbed.

He would always be like, you're going to be so scrubbed when you get home.

The first show that Miranda and I did with him was called Love and Information.

We all represented broad emotions or like experiences.

So Miranda played sex and she was wearing lingerie, which should have never happened.

And my character was Love and I was paired with another woman.

He would make me and this other woman go to these emotional heights over the period of like two hours.

He would come by and watch our scenes and we would be doing the same scene over and over.

And we just didn't understand that what we were being asked to do wasn't safe.

It was this exploitation of these horrific, dark experiences in our lives.

He would ask about horrible things that had happened to us or ask us to imagine terrible things and then