I Like Characters With Flaws, Who Have

One Of The Many Things I Love About Working With Ryan Murphy Is That You're Always Thin-sliced In This Business. You Walk Into A Room And People Want You To Be How You Look Or How You're Perceived Or Whatever It Is In That 10 Minutes That Hey Meet You. I Think Ryan [murphy] Has An Intuition That Looks A Little Bit Deeper And Sees Things That Other People Might Not See In You - Sometimes You Might Not Even See In Yourself - But That He Knows Are There And That He Might Want To Get To Grow And Stretch With As An Actor.

I Very Comprehensively Studied Irving Thalberg And His Biographies. He's Who [scott] Fitzgerald Roughly Modeled The Character After. He Worked For Him, As A Writer, When He Was At Mgm. And, Of Course, I Revisited The Novel And The Politics Of Mgm And The Studio System At The Time And Familiarized Myself With The World. There Was A Great Deal Of Physical And Literary Work That Went Into It.

I Love That Amazon Has This Incredibly Unique, Diplomatic Process Where People's Voices Are Heard, And We're Using This Great Interconnectedness We Have, Via The Internet, To Weigh In And To Have A Say In What We Want To See And What We Don't.

What Is Ultimately Motivating The Character?

Having Done Television For Almost 20 Years Now, A Pilot Is Kind Of Like A Rough Draft. It's Like Bringing People Into Your Ultrasound And Hooking Up To The Monitor And Going, "isn't My Baby Beautiful?" "yeah. I Can Only See The Outline Of It, But It Looks Like It Might Be."