Peter asked her about her childhood love of the theater, but it turns out it wasn't originally her jam.

I wasn't really into theater, uh, uh, immediately.

I was always a, I was just always a huge fan of pop stars and a huge fan of singers, um, and musicians.

And then I was just so, I think, annoying to be around for my family, um, that they were like, "Well, you would do well in the theater."

[laughs]

Like, there's, like, a thing there that they do that I'm super into.

Like, it's kind of like he to me is the equivalent to, like, Jason Sudeikis on Ted Lasso.

And then there's this other guy who also is kind of in that...

Talk about that.

I'm from North Carolina.

So we're like big race country.

Cars are very important to me.

It's like not a great, like I bought a car before I bought a house kind of a thing.

So why don't you just stay here full time? What's your problem?

I know.

I have a lot of roots here.

Uber eats it.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

Yes, exactly.

I don't spend, everyone thinks I'm really cheap who's in my life, and they're right, but I just, I do ball out on food.

No, it's okay.

I don't cook.

I've said the best thing I ever did in life was marry someone that cooks.

I passed away and then

Like, how young were you when you first got into theater?

I wasn't really into theater i- i- immediately.

I was always a, I was just always a huge fan of pop stars and a huge fan of singers, um, and musicians.

And then I was just so, I think, annoying to be around for my family, um, that they were like, "Well, you would do well in the theater."

[laughs]

Like, there's, like, a thing there that they do that I'm super into.

Like, it's kind of like, he to me is the equivalent to, like, Jason Sudeikis on Ted Lasso, and then there's this other guy who also is kind of in that...

I'm forgetting his name off the top of my head, but he plays, like, the evil, um, brother in Game of Thrones.

I love that song.

Um, because I was, like...

I don't know.

We made it when I was in Nashville, and it was, like, the last, like, writing trip that we took, and I was just kinda, like, pissed the whole time.

Just, I was just depressed, and I was like, "Fuck, I, like, wanna be done with this, but I feel like we need something else." And the, so then I had that song for months, bro, and I'd never even heard it.

And then Julian sent it to me and was like, "This is kinda gas." And I was like, "Bro, shut up.

Like, pack it up.

Right

Yeah.

I, like, fully believe every relationship, every friendship, every...

Like, I'm a big, like, everything happens for a reason, all good.

I think that there were, like, a lot of people in my life particularly in that year, and I think also kind of when you're, like, coming up and starting to, like, be, you know, perceived by larger amounts of people, do more things that i- you know, is exciting, your job can kind of become...

You will understand this deeply.

Your job becomes a playground to everybody else and for you it's your work.

And don't get me wrong, there are parts of it that are so fucking exciting and we're so fortunate to work in something that can be like so jokes and so fucking fun.

You switched it up?

Hmm.

Like, I think my friendships are so much deeper with my queer friends than I've ever had in spaces in my life that were more, like, straight.

And the girl that That's So Funny about is absolutely straight, but there are things about that person that I was like, "Damn," like, our friendship, what it was, went so much deeper-

[gentle music]

This Is What Happens When Friends Fall in Love by Sammy Sass.

Mira was dropping me off, and neither one of us wanted to say goodbye.

In a July storm, we sat in her car listening to the rain.

I played with the red matte lipstick she keeps in her cup holder, opened the mirror to put it on, and unscrewed the top where I found a long black hair wound around the inside of the tube.

Mm-hmm.

And at that time, I was like very, like publicly bisexual.

I had been for a very long time.

And, like, in private, I was, like, talking with my girlfriend and a lot of my friends for the last, maybe like eight months before that, of being like, "I actually, like, don't really feel very, like, bi at the moment.

I feel, uh, like, very much like a lesbian, and, like, it feels so nice.

And, like, that word feels amazing, and feels very, like, euphoric for me." So, I was like, "Do you think that we could just change it to, like, gay?" 'Cause I was honestly a little...

I don't know.

Yeah.