Rose Byrne

It was a bitter time, I say in the morning to my children.

And they're like, what?

For a lot of the show, you and your co-star Kelly O'Hara are playing drunk.

Like an hour.

Just getting drunk.

Slowly but surely you're getting drunk over the course of the evening.

And so much of the comedy comes from that.

How do you prepare to act drunk and how do you actually do it?

It's interesting.

Well, his writing is so brilliant with the drunkenness.

Like he's, you know, the switching of words and the slow decline and the volume.

It's very specific in the stage directions.

My character gets louder continually throughout this sequence of them drinking.

which is very funny and very true about drunk people.

They often get louder and louder and louder, and that's what happens to Jane.

And then it's referred to in the third act that she was much worse than Julia, and she really is.

She sort of unravels.

And then there's a violence that comes out in the character too that is very dark and can also happen, I've seen, with people when they

get too inebriated, sometimes it can really, you know, it can not reveal the best part of them.

Yeah, there's a lot of physical comedy in this play.