Rose Byrne

Like, you know, because very little information is given.

And I was like, I wanted to, like, discover this sort of... Because she's got such a sort of streak of...

distrust of authority.

She's very defiant and prickly and why?

Where did that come from?

So that was sort of our boring actor homework that I was really interested in as a point of entry for the story.

And Mary, she's come from an acting background.

She loves character and the details of that.

So that was something we discussed a lot of.

And just also tracking the downfall because

The trap would be she's hysterical from the start, you know, and how do we, you know, and sort of track that sort of slow decline.

And also the isolation the character has put upon herself because she does not want anyone reflecting back her choices, which are becoming increasingly unhinged and irresponsible.

She just has her therapist, really, and he is telling her, you need to get a good night's sleep, don't smoke pot, you know, these basic things, and she's ignoring that.

She just completely goes off the rails.

She has no guardrails anymore.

So that sort of sense of isolation that I've seen with people in my life, if they're in a situation they don't want commented on or they don't want to acknowledge, they slowly remove from your life because they can't have that reflected back.

I want to play a scene from the film and Mary Bronstein, the writer-director, is actually in it.

She plays the daughter's doctor who's really hard on your character, Linda, in this scene.

Here the doctor is trying to talk to Linda about how treatment isn't working and she doesn't think Linda is doing enough to help.

Yeah.