Tessa Thompson

She makes five times more money than you do.

Oh, no.

Oh, and you're happy that she does.

But it creates an imbalance.

So happy or not, it hurts you both.

So as I said, I would lean on some of my, you know, new friends who worked in the space to go through my copy.

But also with that scene as we were developing it, I also asked them, like, what feels right?

You know, Anna is someone who is...

newly back or trying to regain her footing in her professional world and meanwhile is having to contend with a lot of choices that she made in her personal life.

And so I think you get to see her in this moment.

She's someone that deflects a lot and is probably projecting onto Richard, but really she is really talking about herself.

This is beginning to feel like a theme, just like a period lesbian, just a lesbian of the past, a lesbian of a bygone era.

Well, gosh, you were so young.

I was so young.

Yes.

I mean, the truth is early in your career as an actor, if you're someone like me that doesn't have any folks in Hollywood in my family, I was like cold calling agents.

You know, I was like sending my little resume.

I put together like a little collage and a handwritten note and I would send it out to agents around town.

I mean, it was like very scrappy in those early days.

But I remember that cold case audition came after I'd had like a lot of commercial auditions, which I never had any luck at.