WEBVTT - 209: Blown Away w/ Darby Stanchfield 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.720 Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaline Audio in 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:27.080 partnership with Iheartradiots das Katie Tho. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:38.920 I just logged on and noticed that Giermo for this 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:45.280 episode is wearing a very very very sexy red hoodie. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.160 Why would you be wearing a red hoodie today? 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:55.040 Because in this episode, Huck tries to go incognito into 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.160 a hotel. Well, he doesn't even realize he has to 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.120 go incognity. He just happens to be wearing a red hoodie. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.840 Who's been wearing flannels? Like how many episodes? 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.960 Stupid? I'm sorry, scandal, I love you all. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.319 All of a sudden he's like, he's like, I'm gonna 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.720 rock this bright red hoodie. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.200 Because they couldn't have like further down the line, being 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.480 like the most wanted man in America is wearing a 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.280 poop brown flannel. Right, it's like the most wanted man 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.040 in America is wearing a red hoodie that like sticks. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.600 Although I honestly, until this episode, has Huck ever worn 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:28.240 the color red. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.480 No, only when there's blood spatter on him does he 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.280 have red on his body. But he has not worn 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.040 the color red or any other color for that matter, 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:38.679 I mean you know. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.479 Yeah, you were always like all fucking dull and shit, boy, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:47.640 you looked cute in this you're dull. Well, we have 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.680 a great episode because I love this episode, and we 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.400 have very special guests who we're going to tease you 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.880 about later. But wait, wait, wait, wait really quickly, I 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.120 wanted to tell you that I got a text from 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.560 Shonda Rhymes this morning. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.760 You did. I love it? What did she say? Does 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:03.600 she love us? 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.400 Yeah, she loves us. She's obsessed with us. She's going 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.240 to put us in all of her shows from now 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.080 until the end of time. But Shonda wrote, she sent 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.760 me the Prince tweet? Did you know that Prince ever 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:17.400 tweeted us? 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.920 I did not, don't. I feel like if I would 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.959 have known that, we would have ran with that shit. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.560 How did we? I didn't know? Did you? 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.080 I did not know? And this she sent me a 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:32.519 picture of Prince. He tweeted a picture We're going to 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.840 post it when this episode comes out of himself dressed 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.440 and it says a gladiator in a suit, and it's 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.720 Prince in like a beautiful suit. My god, from his 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.160 fucking own personal. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.560 Oh coount, my god. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:48.880 I'm showing this to g right now on the phone, Like, 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.480 can you even handle this for one second? 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:51.080 Katie? 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:52.280 This was when he was alive. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.360 We have to retweet this like when this episode as 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.080 this is amazing. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.959 This is how I never how did I know? 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:00.400 Right? 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.520 But to be honest, Katie, remember it was like a 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.400 whirlwind of things happening around us when shows were airing. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.560 In the tweeting, it was a lot going on in 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.880 our worlds, right, Like there was a lot of shit, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.400 So we probably just missed it. But it's Prince. How 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:15.720 did we freaking miss Prince? 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.160 The fact that he even sat somewhere and watched anything 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:23.200 of me doing anything is like absolutely fucking insane to me. Yeah, 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.280 we have somebody coming on so special for you gladiators 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.400 out there, and my mouth is already watering because she 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:35.640 could win the award for bringing the best salads and 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.760 the best fucking food that in seven years of scandal 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.440 that we ever saw this person. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:47.000 And I first bonded over cum quats because she has 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.240 the most amazing cum quats that she grows in her 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.200 backyard and she brought me some and she used to 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.120 put them in her salad, and ugh, now I can't get. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.680 Enough of her constant watering. She is incredible. She would 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.240 come in to work sometimes with dirt under her nails, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.720 like and having to get a manicure in this and 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.000 everything because she's like to put her hands in the 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.160 earth because she's so fucking real. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.880 She is uh the best. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:15.480 Born and raised in a little town off of Alaska, 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.560 like I think an island uff of Alaska, and her 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.720 dad growing up was one of those deadliest catch fishermen. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.719 Do you know that? Yes, yes, yes, And I'm. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.920 Convinced it's why she's such an incredible actress because she literally, 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.400 in my head, she just grew up playing imagination all 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.680 the time because literally no one was the fuck around. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:36.880 Yeah. I remember she told me a story once that she, uh, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.040 the weather there was so crazy and we could ask 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.359 her this when she pops on, that she jumped up 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.400 or something in the wind like blew her away because 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.880 she was so skinny at the time. I mean, my gosh, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:48.719 when she comes. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.960 On, she is incredible. She's also the inventor of the 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.760 eye hug. Yes, we're going to talk to you about yeah, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.920 because she needs to explain to you all what that 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.680 is in all its glory. She was the last person 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.680 hired of the series regulars on Scandal. We were waiting 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.160 and waiting and waiting. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.960 That's a very good fun fact, Katie. Yeah, hell yeah, 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.400 she was the last one. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:15.400 Who the hell was going to be playing? Yeah, Abby Wheeling. Yes, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.599 And we are here today hanging out with one of 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.279 our true true other gladiators from Olivia Popan Associates, the 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:36.600 one and only Darby stanch Oh. Oh yeah, I'm honestly 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:37.560 going to be emotional. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:42.840 Oh my god, dubs, Miracle you guys, dum. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.360 I'm telling you. We've had other people on Carrie, John 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.960 and Tony, but no one makes me feel like kind 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:51.760 of emotional, like. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.640 I know, I know, I don't know, because if we 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:56.560 were the crew. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.640 Right, we were like more in the trenches or something like. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.120 I just feel like I feel like the three of us. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.000 And then of course the first three seasons Columbus were like. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.760 It was special. Yeah. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.359 It reminds me a lot of the same that I 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.000 feel with people I did an MFA program with, Like, Yes, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.280 we've seen each other in absolutely every single state of mind, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.200 and I feel like I know you guys better just 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.479 by looking at you. That's the words that I know 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.600 most people. Yes, familiarity. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:33.679 I completely agree. Can we just stay for the record 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:38.920 that you are so beautiful? It is a show like 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.640 it is a shock to the system, Like she's here 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.200 with her long red hair and her beautiful face, and 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.720 we've been like g and I have watched the first 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:57.279 two seasons and you are so remarkable. You have so 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.880 much amazing material. And by the way, this just occurred 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.919 to me. We're in these two seasons before you even 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.920 became the fucking chief of staff. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.200 Yes, yes, the secretary I know, which was like a 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:11.560 whole inner series for me. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.440 Yeah, you became red right, like the. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.920 Nicknames, and then I had that big TV hair and 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:21.680 started wearing the dresses and you know, and then when 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.840 low status like trying to get in the bubble at 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.840 the White House and being called Gabby, Yeah, like it 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.640 was a whole different thing. Yeah. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.520 First, tell us your origin story of how you joined 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.880 the Scandal family. Do you remember your audition or where 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.200 you were in your life. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.880 I remember that you guys, I had been binging Damages 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.280 with Nails and Rose Byrne, and I was at a 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.600 point in my career where I was like, Okay, I 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.240 really want to play a woman like this. You know, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:58.240 on a show like this, where you know, they get 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.680 to do all the big things and they're and they're 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.400 like the main event. And I was at a point 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.240 where I was like I might quit acting. And that 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:08.960 was the first summer really thought that way where I 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.200 was like, if I'm only going to be called to 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.280 be on a you know, a guest star on some 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.880 sort of episodic where I cry over you know, a 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.240 dead husband, I'm going to go do something else. So 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.280 I was in that state of mind when I auditioned 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.200 First Gamble, and I was just not having it. I 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.000 was so no nonsense in my life. What you see 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.320 is what you get. I walked in the room and 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.360 Betsy Beer's, you know, Betsy Shadder in the room, Paul mcwigan, 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:40.280 Wenda lay. Betsy says, that's a great suit. And as 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.040 opposed to saying you know what the designer was or anything, 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.400 I was like, oh, well, it's nothing special. It's just 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.079 all a lot of good tailor you know, so abby 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:57.280 wheeling so much true, Yeah, so true. I think Betsy laughed. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.600 And then we did the audition. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:01.000 What was the scene? 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.719 I had like three four scenes that one page is 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.800 of war where I where I learned this big clue 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.800 and I so there's that like kind of awkward side 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.640 of Abbey that we see. There was a monologue that 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.280 was never in the show that Shonda wrote about Stephen 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:25.160 how Steven smells like apples and man, wow. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.640 Well god, we see it all over your face in 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:28.679 a bunch of episodes. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.120 Anyway, we did the scenes and I got done and 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.720 sat down and there was pure silence, and Shonda was 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.560 just staring at me. And you know, Sho is like 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.360 this presence and sure her brain is going, but she doesn't. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.200 You know, it's like time has stopped. Everyone stopped. Everyone's 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.240 looking at her again. Because of the frame of mind, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.880 I was at take it or leave it, you know, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:00.000 I didn't start to oh, thank you so much, yeah, yeah, 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:00.800 anything again. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.839 I just sat whatever, this is it. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.480 I stared right back at her. You did that for 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:07.080 like a minute. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:08.120 Wow. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.160 Yeah, pretty intense. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:11.920 Wow. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.520 That's mostly what I remember. And then I had to 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.880 come back again, I think for some suits who needed 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.199 to see with my hair down and can she cry 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.720 and stuff like that. So he did another little round. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:24.959 But at that point I could tell. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.360 This all happened very quickly though, right Darby, because I was. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:29.520 The last one to be cast. 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.640 Yeah, yes, do you guys remember this? 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:31.920 Oh? 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.160 We we had been we had been rehearsing this show already, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.200 we had been rehearsing the pilot and we were all like, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.320 oh my god, who's going to play Abbey? Who's going 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:39.800 to play Abbey? 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.520 And then okay, and I have two very specific memories 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.320 of you guys really. But first was so I get 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:52.240 cast and we go to the Prospect Studios Prospect Studios, right, 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.160 and you guys are we're all waiting for like screen 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.520 tests or something or rehearsal or something. And I walk 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.240 to the where all this is happening, and Katie, you're 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.120 one of the first ones I see. Do you remember this? 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.000 What I remember like yesterday and you're sitting there. I 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.240 remember where you were sitting at this table and you 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.000 look up at me, and you know your face, I mean, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.200 you have this sunshine face. You have the most beautiful, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.840 kind eager like I can't wait to meet my new classmate, 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.320 you know, my new show. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.240 I felt, I. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.640 Know, and you were so I just remember your radiance 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.720 and I was like, Okay, this is gonna be fun. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.520 I remember that moment so well. I was sitting at 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.360 a table that had a chair attached to it or something, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.280 and you can walk in, and you were wearing your 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.680 suit that I think you auditioned in, like I don't 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.120 know or no, was it the suit? 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.000 You know, I don't actually know what I was wearing 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.040 in that moment, But for rehearses, I was like in 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.480 a long black coat of my own that ended up 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.160 being very much like what Abby wears. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.640 It just made me feel like, well, I just. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.360 I'm a sucker for a long black tailored coat. And 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.760 then Jared, when we did cut you a couple of 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.200 days later after warhears as, we did a studio read, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.400 a read for the studio read for the network, and 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.000 it was like a big room of you know, all 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:14.320 the important people. And I remember coming into this room 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.520 and I was feeling very much like I often do, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.400 like like a watcher, like just kind of quieter, and 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.040 you were doing that. You were quiet, no one was 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.079 talking to you were already sitting down, I think, at 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.520 the table, and I went up and I joined you, 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.080 and I just remember, I just remember like that being 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.880 the first moment of connection of like okay energy. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.840 I remember that. I remember that and moving forward from there. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.560 Every time you and I had a scene together. When 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.360 we started shooting, it just felt special because our worlds 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.000 didn't really collide that much, right, Like on screen. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.840 I know special task, special group of individuals. I feel 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:59.040 very connected to each and everyone, especially this Gladiator. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.000 Yeah, oh my god. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.520 I mean going back to these cases of the week 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.280 and like you being up on the board and you 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.600 being like, I do know that Wally. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.280 Was She's pulling out that like hair from the from 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.960 the drain in that one episode. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.960 An investigator, right and taking. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.120 Super into Steven. The episodes were like you find out 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.880 Steven's sleeping with prostitutes, and you have all these amazing 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.000 lines in the first season when you're like finding out 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.760 what hardwood floors are, like the drapes and the curtains, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:41.920 and like you're the snarky, ironic character dry so needed, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.720 so funny, and your relationship with Olivia is just. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.840 Like so good. We'll be right back, guys. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.200 Are there any memories that you have that really stick 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:57.520 out from the pilot? 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:04.280 Yeah, shooting in the original building downtown for some reason 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.120 that period of time. I think it's because we had 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.520 to do all night shoots. Yeah, because of we were 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.040 shooting night for night I guess right, And it was 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.000 also maybe just when we could get in there. I 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.280 don't remember. We were there all night long in that giant, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.800 drafty building and there was a jewelry robbery that there 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.120 was a robbery that happened across the street at the 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:24.720 jewelry store for real. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.040 I love that you remember that the jewel heighst and 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.400 we all couldn't leave the building. They resolved it or. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:35.200 Whatever, and so I just remember the sequence that all 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.880 night long, like we were doing a sequence where it 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.840 was the cloths feeding up but you see all the 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.280 different evidence going up on the board and then and 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.320 how long that took didn't fail me even though it yeah, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.280 you know, in Paul mccueigan's style, it sped up really 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.680 really fast and takety seconds. But how many hours that took? 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.720 Do you remember the windows leaking because it was raining outside? 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.240 It was it was raining. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.760 It was drafty, it was yeah, I mean, wasn't there 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.920 like a crazy elevator situation just to get up there? Yes? 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.600 I was well, I was having my own high health drama. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.680 I was having I was getting blisters. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.040 I remember that because you were stockings in. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.480 The show my god, it was so awful. It was 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.560 It's so funny being were like, you know, you can 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.560 change shoes, even though we've shot half those things. You 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:25.640 need to change shoes because I. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:25.800 Was just. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.160 They were so supportive, you know, and literally just finding 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.640 our feet, understanding what the tone of the show was 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.720 and everything. But you know, when your boss will say 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.400 something like that, you feel quite supportive. Yeah, I'm sure 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.080 struggling with something so technical. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.840 Yeah, flashing forward, Darby, do you remember you and I 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.120 were shooting a scene. I think it was the last season. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.520 We were in a scene We're at a party, and 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.440 we were like, let's try like Huck is rubbing your feet. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.800 We rehearsed the scene where I'm rubbing your feet, and 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.920 I think Tom was like, yeah, I don't I don't 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.680 think I don't remember that. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.320 Oh shut it down. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.520 Yes, yes, yeah, I thought it was. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.440 Why I would have liked it. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.800 Was you and I liked it because we were tired. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.040 It was very like, you know, just like your little 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.160 or older brother. I was gonna say a little brother. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.920 Maybe he thought it would just like lead to too 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:18.720 many questions. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.680 Yes, exactly, exactly interesting interesting debut. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.440 Did you know about Abby's backstory at all about the 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.440 abusive husband, about any of that before you got the 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:30.280 role was that. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.880 No, I did not know. And this particular episode was 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.880 an interesting moment in that in that whole story, I 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.480 did not know that at all. And I think it 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:46.120 first comes up in season one between Olivia and Abby. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.520 Think it's a very inflammatory scene. I don't remember all 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:54.240 the words, but I remember Abby basically really sticking into 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.280 Olivia and saying, you've got your names on that door 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.760 you have to fix. You've got to say it, just 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.960 like you've helped me out of this relationship. And I 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.400 didn't know much. And you know, when I think about it, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.359 it wasn't like I was briefed about it or you know, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.679 I just sort of learned as we went, and then 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:18.399 I I researched, you know, domestic abuse. I started to 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.880 build a backstory like we all do with these characters. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.960 And then, you know, it's so interesting because every time 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:31.760 that Abby had anything domestic abuse come up about her 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:36.760 past relationship or a trigger in some way, it always 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:41.160 was like a very PTSD kind of experience. I, as 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.920 an actor, didn't know how these scenes would turn out. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:49.160 It was also surprising what was written in the scripts. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.520 It was new, and I would have a very visceral 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:58.000 reaction to the material and I wouldn't get to. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.520 Collectual about it or yeah we were I feel like 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:04.680 that was the process. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:09.920 It was very very strange how how that process was, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.119 and now it affected me. But I think in the 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.120 episode that we're talking about, there's a scene where Abby's 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:21.040 waiting for David in his apartment and there's no words 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.240 and Abby slaps him. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.280 Oh my god, but that's your brilliance? Are your few? 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.320 Me and Carrie used to say this about you. Only 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.320 Darby can go from like is she gonna laugh? And 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.199 then she gets a twinge of emotion and then you 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.760 can see her bury it and then you can see 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.639 like anger come out, but like in your face. Without 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.440 them writing anything, we could see all of that on 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.040 you so beautifully, And. 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.880 In this episode it happens. In this episode you go 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:58.680 from like anger to lust to hatred to emotional oh 0:18:58.720 --> 0:18:59.560 my god. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.440 Almost crying, to the relationship that couldn't be. Oh my god, 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.159 we're going to get there. I can't even taking like 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:11.600 such a hard left turn. And I talk about how 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:17.000 delicious the salads you made on set for or whatever 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.920 food you were bringing in, and honestly, you would come 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.200 in with fucking ship that I don't know if you'd 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.840 grown in your own garden manicure because there's dirt underneath 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.200 my nails. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.120 We enjoyed watching your salads. We just. 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:40.399 The spinach, the like nuts. There'd be like it was delicious, 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.760 and then you'd always put lemon and stuff in like 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.639 a little lemon baggy to like squeeze it. I was like, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:50.320 she is the classiest bitch guy, remember, oh. 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:57.440 Yeah, oh yeah, that's a wonderful thing to be obs 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.359 that is, you were a great cook. 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.880 And also can this bring us to I do think 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.000 you also grew grapefruits and you had the most incredible 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.280 Instagram video during COVID that saved all of our lives 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.560 where you instructed us all how to cut said grapefruit 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.680 while you had a breakdown of hysteria, which glass of 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:19.600 Darby can only break like that. 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.600 Yeah, that's what happens when you were quarantine. 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.679 And and it wasn't only in one way. You had 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:27.919 different ways you could do it. You were like, well 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:32.120 you could do slices or you could do cute, which 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:33.600 was brilliant. 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.560 You are the most delicious human being Oh my god, 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:41.800 do you remember in DC for the penultimate episode when 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.080 you and George and all of us we were like 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:49.080 running around at like the John Wilkspooth Theater where Lincoln 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.639 got shot, and we were running around to the bathrooms. 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.160 We were like freezing cold, but we were just running around. 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.600 Like you said, I think you nailed it like classmates, 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.960 like as if they were like back in elementary school, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:01.000 like almost giddy. 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.760 Some of my favorite memories of all of us are 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:10.560 like backstage before we go on to do Haimy fest 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:15.080 or or Jimmy Cammel, you know, just these sort of 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:19.600 backstage moments where we're in the wings and publicity is 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.480 set to work. That's like, really, you know, you're not acting, 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.639 you're selling your show. But it was always play with everybody. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.520 There was always there was always We sent so many 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.560 upfronts together in New York, and I just remember being 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:37.800 like going through backs of kitchens, you know, being in elevators. 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:39.159 I forgot about that. 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.080