WEBVTT - I Choose … Quirky, Curious and Kind with Carrie Preston 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:09.360 You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. Hi. Everyone, 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.639 welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:17.360 the bold and sometimes quirky choices we make. From her 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:22.360 Emmy Award winning turn as the brilliant and unconventional Elsbeth 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.880 Tascone on the Good Wife and the Good Fight to 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:31.800 leading CBS's hit series Elsbeth, Carrie Preston has turned her 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:37.960 quirk into clarity and curiosity into power. Endlessly versatile, Carrie 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:42.400 has moved seamlessly between comedy and drama, television and film stage, 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:47.120 and directing from Elsbeth to True Blood and Clause to 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.760 The Holdovers. She has built a career defined not by 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.720 chasing trends, but by choosing roles that feel surprising and 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:01.000 emphasize individuality. That instinct continued to pay off this year, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.560 earning her a Critics Choice Best Actress in a Comedy 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:10.880 Series nomination. Offscreen, Carrie brings that same intentionality to how 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.880 she lives, Supporting all kinds of human rights, enjoying a 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.280 long and loving marriage with fellow actor Michael Emerson, and 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:25.759 in an industry that can reward bitter competition, Carrie quietly 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.759 has built a reputation for being gracious and kind. She 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.800 doesn't just play characters who choose themselves and others. She 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:39.440 lives it. So happy to have Carrie Preston with me today. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.880 There's something I think that's really great about you is 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.920 that you and your husband, Michael Emerson have been together 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.360 for a good minute. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:50.160 Yeah. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.360 You both share life and creative work together. And I'm 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.720 sure over the is it twenty six years now? 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:02.600 Yeah, we've been married twenty seven. Yeah, we've been together 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.680 for thirty one. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.760 Wow, whoa wow, Hello, I'm praying, I'm bounce to you. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.000 I'm losing count, you know, I'm like, wait a minute, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:13.960 wait a minute. What is it? Sort of like when 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.520 sometimes when people ask me what aide, how old are you? 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.000 I'm like, I think you know, it's it's like that 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:24.120 with with the with the marriage for sure, just you know, well, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.600 first of all, time is flying by, and then second 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.720 of all he's just been such a steady that I 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.120 I don't need you. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.959 Know, Yes, I'm sure over the over all the years, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.840 you've seen all the ups and downs of the life 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.080 of not just one actor, but two. Yes, being married 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.880 to another actor I means sharing a very uncertain industry, 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:49.720 one that comes with a lot of all the things, rejection, stress, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.520 absurd schedules, not aligning, having to be in the public 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.400 eye so much of the time. How do you and 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.079 your husband choose to protect your marriage? 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.080 Yeah, we are, you know, we're like that boring married couple, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.200 you know, And I'm saying we we like we we 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.600 we stay home when we can, we next together. Well, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:16.359 we have you know, similar interests. We it's all those 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.880 things that you like learned in kindergarten, you know. We 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.880 we respect each other. We we say please, we say 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.639 thank you, We know how to share. You know. It's 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.520 just those things that help, you know, keep the marriage 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:34.000 going and keep and keep it protected because there is 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.200 that respect for each other, and there's that joy, and 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.680 there's that understanding of what the other one is doing, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.640 you know, supporting each other in choices. Oh, I want 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.560 to go and do a series. It's going to shoot 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.680 in another city for we don't know how long. Right, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.600 how are we going to navigate the time of part? 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.080 We have like little rules, you know. We talk every day. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.760 We're old school. We talk on the phone. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.800 Don't really be a telephone, you actually talk into it. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.560 We talked into it like this. Wow, I know, it's weird. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.600 We don't do the FaceTime. Well, I don't know, it's 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.400 just that's how we started. And so that's what feels 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.720 comfortable to us, is just the miihoring of the voice. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.800 And we if we're apart, we try to see each 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.839 other at least every two weeks, you know. It's like 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.359 we rule and even if it's for a day, we 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:30.159 see each other. And somehow that seems do you have worked? 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.800 Yeah, I mean it's crazy because I'm sure both of 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.240 you are just moving a million miles an hour in 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.960 different directions a lot of the times. Yeah, but that 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.080 staying connected is so important. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.560 It is, it is, and you know, it's it's interesting 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.039 this time, at this time in my life, I'm I'm 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.839 the super busy one, and he's the one that's kind 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.960 of enjoying not being busy, right, And that's has been 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.719 a wonderful balance for us because he is really great 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.640 at domestic things, like he takes care of the home 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.640 and our lives. And you know, he just brought me 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.159 lunch to make sure I was eating, you know, like 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.839 he's because he knows I'm I'm busy doing things for 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:19.160 the show and and and I like that he understands 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.520 the weird hours. He understands when you know, I have 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.320 to get up at four am and I, you know, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:26.880 I have to go to bed at a certain hour, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.680 or I'm always having lines or whatever it is. And 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.159 I think it helps that we both, you know, have 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.080 been in the same perfection and you know, we get 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.560 what those weird demands are. And then when we neither 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.440 one of us is working, we really take advantage of 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:43.240 that time together. Yeah. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.159 Yeah, I'm so glad it's working out for you being 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.080 married to an actor, because yeah, it was a little 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:55.080 challenging for me, but that's okay. I'm happy for you. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.960 Well, we don't really talk about the industry much. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.520 Oh that's a good idea. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.760 And that's good idea. And you know, we watch each 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.560 other's work and just go amazing and then that's it. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.839 You know. He we worked together. He came on Elsbeth 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:16.400 last season. He did ARC and it was funny because 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.800 they they you know, everybody loves Michael. He's brilliant. Yes, yes, oh, 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.600 let's figure out how to keep him on longer. And 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.960 Michael was like, I'm good. I like, I just want 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.719 to be in this amount, and then I want to 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.920 give the show back to Carrie and let her just 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.800 that's her show, and you know, and I want her 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.000 to I don't want to be a part, you know. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:36.600 I only want to be a part of it to 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.360 a certain degree. And that was very healthy for us. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:42.640 I think I love that. 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:55.240 Yeah, you've played so many unconventional women who succeed by 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.440 kind of leaning into what makes them different. Yeah. What 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.160 what such interesting choices? What was there a moment in 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.800 your own real life or even in your career when 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:10.080 you consciously chose yourself over fitting into the mold. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.640 I feel like all the time. You know, I had 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.160 an amazing I have an amazing mother, and I had 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:27.600 a very supportive childhood in encouraging me to be who 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.160 I am and to find whatever passion it is that 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:36.239 I want out of life. My mom's was a visual 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:42.280 artist and art therapist and so very supportive of letting 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.680 each of her kids be individual and who we are. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.120 And so I feel like it was kind of inherent 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.760 in me from the get go to do that. And 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.600 when I fell in love with theater, I fell in 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.960 love with acting, there was never trying to talk me 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.440 out of it. You know, and even when I was 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.600 a kid and starting to do plays, when I was 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.040 like nine years old, I was wanted to play the 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.000 strange characters, the weird characters, the character characters I wanted 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.600 to play. You know, I didn't want to play Cinderella 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.800 or snow White. I wanted to play the ditsy maid 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.120 or the kookie fairy godmother. You know, I wanted those parts. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.320 And I don't know why. I mean, I don't know what. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.360 It was like, they seem more fun, they. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.000 Were more fun, and they got to do more interesting 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.400 things and so and I feel like I, you know, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.200 was able to bring my own unique brand, even though 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.920 you know, people like when I was in college and 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.720 even when I first got out in the industry, it 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.520 was like, oh, you're an angenue, you should don't play 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.400 the I was like, no, I don't want to do ingenue. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.400 You know, I don't want to. I want to do 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.640 the you know, that's not who I feel like I 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:54.679 am on the inside. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.000 You know, it doesn't match up, doesn't match up. So 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.680 good to know that about yourself at such an age too. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:06.320 Yeah, But the industry, you know, when when I was 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.080 certainly launched into it, I went to school for a 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.839 really long time. I really liked it. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.960 You went to Juilliard, but I went to before that. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.480 I went to college, so I was you know, I 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.520 was in school for like a solid eight years and 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.880 and and loved that. I liked the you know, the 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.679 kind of insular womb that it was, you know. And 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.640 then when I got catapuled it out into the industry 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:36.320 in the nineties, you know, it was very much about 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.600 what's on the outside. Oh yes, you know, as you know, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.400 and I was just I just couldn't I just couldn't 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.480 quite just couldn't quite keep up with that, you know. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.839 It was just like I just like didn't know how 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.360 to do that. So I, you know, just kept leaning 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:59.160 into you know, playing these fun supporting roles and a 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.560 lot of them ended up being comedic. And I found that, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.880 you know, I that was something that I could offer, 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.480 and it would be the less pressure on on on 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:15.439 all whatever the requirements that you be on. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.359 The y the standards. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:19.960 So what I would have hold on to that when 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.800 you say choose me, I would choose that, you know, say, no, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.720 I'm leaning into this, I'm choosing this right I want to. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.440 That's what I feel like. I have to offer, you know, yeah, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.520 you know, I don't. I don't really like the term 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.880 character actor because like, we're all characters. Yeah, you know 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.320 what I'm saying, Like Joy Roberts is playing a character. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.400 But you know that word I like to I like 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.200 to call us more like illusionists, you know, people who 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.640 are really illusionists, yeah, who want to create an illusion, 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.960 but being somebody different than them. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.440 It sounds like you just always really stayed true to 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.520 your authenticity. And that's so admirable. Like even when the 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.640 industry wanted to change it, get rid of it, make 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.280 you do what everybody else was doing. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.000 It's painful. It's painful, you know. I remember one time 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.800 I gotten you know, I was a theater girl, right, 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.080 So I was doing all this theater and I had 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.600 been in theater school and stuff, and I didn't know 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.440 what style. I didn't know about styling, I didn't know 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.200 about stylists, I didn't know about any of that stuff, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.240 and so I would just sort of dress the way 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.880 I want to dress. And I had just gotten some 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.160 new clothes and I thought they were really cute, and 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.040 you know, I did my makeup and my hair in 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.760 the way that I thought I looked pretty. And I 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.760 went into an audition and you know that, I got 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.760 a call from my agent, well, we have some feedback 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.360 for you, okay, And I was like, oh that I 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.559 hold the feedback. Yeah, I hate the feedback, you know. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.440 I was like, you were great, you were like one 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.120 of the best actors. But they said you need to 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.400 start paying more attention to how you look, and okay, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.680 I just I was like, what does that mean? Like, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.559 I don't even know what to I don't even know 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.640 how to do. And I said to my agent, I 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.880 don't know, I don't know what to do with that, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.320 and she was like, well, you know, maybe you should 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.079 get a stylist. And I was like, I can't afford 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.320 a stylist, you know. I couldn't afford to get somebody 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.160 who could do that. So I just had to like 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.000 live with that and then think, okay, well what does 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.440 that mean in terms of business. I guess it means, I, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.720 you know, I need to I don't know, change my 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.440 hair color and do a little I don't know, do 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:29.040 some stuff. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:30.600 I noticed myself up a little. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.280 Pitted myself up, and so I did that, and you know, 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.760 it's it's sort of worked. But I just love it 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:40.240 that now I'm playing this woman who ELL's Betasi, who 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.119 dresses the way she wants to dress out. Now it's fabulous, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.320 but it's not like anybody else is dressing. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:47.480 Oh it's so good. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.240 You know, doesn't know how to do her hair and 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.679 make up really, you know, she just does what she 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.800 can with her life. I just love that from that point, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.240 you know, that moment in my real life that it's 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.520 now lining up with I'm playing a character that was 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.440 doing the same thing that I was. That's so cool 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:08.200 doing them. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.760 You know, it's like full circle for you, full. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.840 Circle fifteen years though of. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.200 The same character Elisabeth. Oh, the course of three different shows. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.240 Am I right on that? 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.560 You are right? Yes, What is. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.000 The secret to this role's longevity? 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.360 I don't know. I mean, well, in the Good Wife 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.480 and Good Fight, you know, she was just recurring, like 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.600 I would maybe play her once a year, if that. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.480 I think I played her over the those two shows 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:39.080 maybe twenty times, nineteen twenty times over there, you know, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.959 And that was fourteen years of you know their shows, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.400 right right, seven seasons and another seven or six or 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:47.280 seven seasons. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:48.920 So it's something about her. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.960 And then just something about her. I think she just 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.760 has She's a very unique person. Her perspective on life 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:03.280 is unique. She's very positive, she's very present, she's very curious. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:07.720 It brings a lot of energy and joy to her life. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.679 I think it's a choice. I think she talk about choose. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.040 She uses that. It's it is a decisive thing. It 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.480 is something that you have to work at to be 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.120 that way in the world. You know. I think our 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.120 tendency is to, you know, not be that, because why 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.320 you know, you you're opening yourself up more to being hurt, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.800 to be judged, to be all those things. And this 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.200 is a woman who chooses, uh not to do that. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.120 And I think that's infectious, and I think people it's 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.960 infectious for me to play her, but I think it's 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.840 also hopefully what brings people back to want to watch 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:49.560 her again. You know. Yes, yes, she makes things about 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.440 not herself, about she makes it about the other person, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.240 about the problem, about the puzzle, about the mystery, about 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.240 the law, the legal case she's working on. It's always 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.440 about other things, which I think is it's kind of 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.200 a subversive way of choosing herself. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.320 Right, right, Yeah, Her quirkiness is so fun because it's 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:11.920 never explained or apologize for no really is yeah, right? 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.560 And I think that it sounds like it was helpful 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.760 for you to kind of be in that unconventional sort 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.760 of state of mind. But do you think it's it's 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.400 helpful for the viewers too. It's something that they're noticing. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.200 It's not something when you're unconventional, it's not something that 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:29.800 you need to hide from, but it's something that you 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.400 should protect and even highlight. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.480 Yeah, I think so. I think I think it's true. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:40.320 And and but she's so singular, she's so unique, and 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.760 people like to ask me, you know, what does she have? 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.200 What is what is she on the spectrum? It's like 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.520 what's going on? They want to diagnose her and I 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.280 and we don't want to do that. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.480 You know, what do you say to her that while I. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.600 Say we don't we she is who she is, She 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.640 is herself. She's not one thing. She's not a diagnosis. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.640 And plus, you know, if you were to diagnose, you know, 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.920 you were to put like a diagnosis on somebody, then 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.040 it opens it up to oh, well, well that's not 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.600 really true, that's not that, that's not that thing, that's 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:21.200 not that thing. And instead I think it's it's more. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.400 I think it's better in a way with this character 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:29.200 to let her be who she is as a statement 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:34.360 to let anybody be who they are. And you know, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.640 what's so great about her is that people don't see 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:42.080 her coming, you know. And so when she's trying to, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.640 you know, have a cat and mouse, she has a 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.000 cat and mouse with this with a killer, and she's 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.880 trying to get them to slip up and say a 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:54.880 thing they're going to because they are they don't know 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.600 what she's going to say next or do next. Throws 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.640 them off their game. It's unexpected, and I think hopefully 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.400 that's what keeps the viewer watching too, is that they 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.200 aren't expecting, right, And. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.240 It's got to be a great way for you to 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.560 stay you know, like fresh and motivated, because you do 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.399 never know what's going to come up, what's going to. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.280 Be right, Yes, it does, and you know, it's the 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:25.120 most material I've ever been trusted with for in such 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:29.720 a short amount of time, for twenty episodes. So it's 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:34.000 I'm constantly my brain is constantly being engaged. I'm learning 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:39.840 fifty page of dialogue every eight days. I'm submerged, I'm 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.160 immersed in the world of this character and the world 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.960 of our set. And I love it. I mean, it's 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:52.119 a it's a wonderful creative gift, you know, able to 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.560 do that, and to be to be trusted with that 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:01.159 amount of material, and to be working with people who 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:05.919 are giving me such wonderful scripts to work with, you know, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.840 It's it's like a once in a lifetime kind of 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:09.879 experience I'm having. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.920 It's it's so great. Okay, So do you carry a tote? 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.280 Do you? Okay, So I'm gonna show you. Actually I 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:18.800 got I. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.040 Want to know what is in Carrie's tote as opposed 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.000 to what would be an Els tote. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.080 So this is a tote bag that actually I work 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.720 with a tote bag designer on. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.919 Oh my gosh, that's so fun. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:32.920 I know. I call it the carry it all the 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.560 A R I E. They carry it all? Cute? I 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.760 do I carry it all? I mean, this bag goes 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.320 with me everywhere, and I've got everything that I need 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.360 in it in the same way that Elsbeth does. You know, Okay, 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.840 I carry my day's worth of gosh. I have everything 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.880 in here, from hand sanitizer to and if I start 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.160 to get a cold, I have like dual defense I've 0:18:54.160 --> 0:19:01.040 got like things, rollers, rollers, I got you know, get everything. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.080 Yeah, like me, Like, I don't want to leave the 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.320 house because without all my things, because what I might 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:07.080 need something. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.320 I mean, if I had had kids, I don't know 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.080 what I would have. I mean I would have probably 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.679 had to have a whole nother you know, stroller or 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.960 something just to carry all the stuff. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.240 I was much more organized when I had the kids, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.720 like you know, their diaper bag or their whatever bag. 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.800 But now it's like the bigger the bag, the more 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.840 stuff I throw in it, and I have no idea 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:28.960 what's even in there anymore. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.399 Well, see, this bag has lots of pockets, so I 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.919 do know where everything is. I like the I am 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.359 a pretty organized person. So that's why I like it, 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.000 because it has lots of bad places for all them. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.400 Oh my gosh, that's a cute bag. So where if 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:43.800 somebody wanted to buy that is? 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:44.080 Yeah? 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:44.600 For sale? 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.439 It is Oh yeah, actually you can go to Yobi 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:53.080 mam Okay yob I Mocho Yobi and they have it's 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:54.200 called the Carry It All. 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:59.199 Uh so good. Yeah you did a low collab. I 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.040 did really fun. 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:08.040 Yeah. 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:13.040 What has playing such a fashionable and colorfully styled gal 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.960 done for your own fashion sense, has her style sort 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:18.960 of bled across into your real life. 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.159 I like to think that we kind of meet in 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.960 the middle, you know, because I always have been somebody 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:29.879 who is not afraid. So I always wore lots of color. 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:31.840 I mean when I hid, my mom used to call 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.320 it humor dressing. She was like, oh, you're humor dressing again, 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.400 because I would wear like back, you know, some big 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.040 baggy parachute pant or something, and I'd wear some oversized, 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.440 you know, multicolored sweatshirt or and when I was really little, 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.840 I love to wear long dresses. I just wanted long dresses. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.920 I thought it was just it was it was fun. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.760 To to twirl around. Yeah. 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.959 Yeah, even though no one else is everybody's wearing shorts 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:59.879 and long down I just loved it. So, you know, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.359 I always had that tendency to want to have something 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.760 that's you know, this is fun chitahs, you know, a 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.040 little cheetahs on. Yeah, lots to have things that say, 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.119 say a thing. Then I started playing Elsbeth and the 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:17.840 brilliant Dan Lawson, who is our costume designer, who is 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:24.879 you know, it's an extraordinarily talented genius. Uh you know, 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.480 I just stand there like this and hands me the 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.320 character and has done that since day one. 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.600 I love that when you can just count on somebody 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:35.560 that gets it. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:40.159 He gets it, he understands the character. He'll he sends me, 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:42.919 you know, we have these epic fittings at the beginning 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.840 of the season. I mean like, I'll do a nine 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.200 hour fitting one day and the next day I'll do 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:50.800 like a six hour fitting. And and so he's building 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.960 up the closet for the season because we do twenty 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.200 episodes and it's I can't do a fitting every right, 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:59.840 you're busy. So he has got a whole closet and 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.600 and he he puts all the clothes together on on on, 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.720 He has a form that's that's uh, got my measurements 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:09.440 and he just puts them on. And then he sends 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:11.320 me photos and this is what you're wearing. And I 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.960