Sona O'Brien

And then they were like, no, no, no, you're playing a character.

So I talked to Mary and tried very hard to talk her out of it.

I just was like, well, this is a really great script and you don't want me in there.

But she was adamant.

Um, I, I mean, my first reaction was there's, to be honest with you, was there's been a mistake.

Yeah.

You know, like why, why am I, why is someone, and I should talk to my therapist about that, but it, it was, um, very surprising to me that she has this, this beautiful thing that she's written that's, uh, a real statement by her and, um, and I, and, and comes from her life and, um,

I just, this is her big shot and I'm in there and I thought, okay.

And I really didn't want to mess things up.

So she was very like- So we felt the same way.

We were both like, we gotta mess it up.

Only there's a difference.

We gotta mess it up.

There's a little difference.

You're Rose Byrne.

And I'm-

So then I'm starting to feel better because she's given me all the reasons why I'd just be perfect for it.

And she said, trust me, everyone is excited about you doing it and you're perfect for it.

And I thought, well, they're professionals, they must know.

And then Mary sets this meeting