, which was sort of classic Damon hide your vegetables in weirdness. Ask big questions while sort of inventing a strange genre.and how much you were able to do there, but you're at the center of this in a way that I don't think you really have been in anything other thanYeah, I had only been number one on the call sheet one other time, in, and it was always a sort of daunting thing to me.
Did you take some of that leadership guidance that you'd had from Edie Falco and Alison Brie? Did you play out those lessons you'd learned? Totally. You know, I got my start mostly in theater and did really plays in New York for like, the first decade out of college and then episodes of stuff here and there to keep qualifying for health insurance. I was certainly trying to be in film and TV, and film and TV just didn't really want me.
The model of a play where you have a month, maybe five weeks of rehearsal and then performances, it was really more conducive to the kind of person that I maybe was. I had all these ideas creatively, but I was pretty shy and nervous and second- guessed myself. And it really took me five weeks to be like, ‘I have an idea and I'd like to do it in the play.’ And then for TV and film, that process is condensed into 20 minutes.
You know, when you're standing across from a good actor in the scene, it's much easier to find that tunnel vision that I could find much easier in a play than on set. And every single actor in this show just blew my mind. Even the people who hand a handful of lines. It was some sort of weird alignment where everybody was incredible and that just made my job insanely easy.