But, you know, I think that's, you see that in the film.

Yeah, there was an element, that square of a table, three cameras in the center filming, let's say the end, then the other, the whole row of actors who were off camera, you could see and feel their energy and focus towards you.

And that is, I mean, I think we will all agree like that.

is an element of theater where you're just paying attention and giving energy to each other.

And it's kind of an unspoken thing that happens, but it would be very easy to just kind of doodle or, you know, you know, space out.

But everyone was like, again, in a very smoke filled airless room for three weeks.

We were so happy.

And I'm curious, just can you talk about playing her holding so much back and in reserve and then this release of emotion at the end? Yeah.

What is your interaction with the HSE been like when it comes to trying to get that service?

No, David.

It's like many of the other services.

It's hard to actually get the help you need.

Andy has been under the care of four different speech therapists in the last three and a half to four years.

Our current state is we're waiting on an ACC device, so he needs an ACC assessment through the HSE.

And when I rang the other day, it's going to be two and a half years before he's even assessed, which would leave him nine years of age trying to teach him a new skill rather than getting a skills assessment.

By the same token, if the boat was turned around and the HSE implemented an immediate solution, be it agency staff coming in to provide the service and the therapy, like the situation for your child could be turned around very quickly if they managed to put the roles in place.

Yeah, how did it go down?

That is true, and the timing was eerie because, um, I did say that to my agent.

It was, it was soon after the Oscars, and I was like, "You know, I'm doing a lot of dramas, and if I have any kind of cachet right now at this moment, I wanna do a comedy and I wanna do a comedy like The Office," 'cause I was never good at the four-camera, um, sitcom.

I just felt too much pressure and it wasn't, like, I f- I always feel like characters weren't really rooted in a reality the way The Office was.

And that goes back to how I met Paul Lieberstein.

We were both, um, employed on The Naked Truth, and, um, he was a writer.

My agent had kind of reached out, and at the same time Paul had reached out, I guess, to him.

Oh, my gosh.

Reading Seth Fried's story, You Again, actor Amy Ryan.

You Again.

After his death, Felix was surprised to find himself at the party where four decades earlier he'd met his wife.

There he was again in Arnold Dobson's apartment, which was barely furnished and reeked of cigarettes.

If he remembered correctly, this was just before Arnie left the city to teach French literature at a university in the middle of some gray Ohio prairie.

But even stranger than being back in his old friend's underheated loft, everyone standing around in their winter coats, was that he himself was 33 again, and no longer had that constant thrum of discomfort in his knees.

He was also alarmed to notice that he was holding a blue plastic cup filled with whiskey.

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