So let's just start with how much did you actually know about the case before you signed on? I

didn't really know much.

And I was interested in playing this because I knew the lead actress, Amy Davidson.

We were friends, colleagues.

We had done something years, probably just a year prior or so.

And I was very impressed by her desire to evolve her artistry.

Yep.

So

So let's just start with how much did you actually know about the case before you signed on? I didn't really know much.

And I was interested in playing this because I knew the lead actress, Amy Davidson.

We were friends, colleagues.

We had done something years, probably just a year prior or so.

And I was very impressed by her desire to evolve her artistry.

Yep.

And, Amy, if those of you who aren't familiar with her, was one of the daughters on Three Simple Rules with Cuoco, who was also a friend of mine.

Again,

clients.

But I'm going to read something to you that is directly related to what you just said.

How do we get in their minds? What they, meaning the people that are capable of this, I think we know so many people who are professional liars, who are compulsive, and they are sociopathic narcissists, and they are at the highest levels of everything, certainly in our culture.

Yeah.

But someone who will be led to murder and the kind of murder that this man did is worth noting.

To figure out the psychology that what they were saying to themselves to justify their actions.

Lisa worked on a couple of these stories.

So

And obviously it's in your DNA, just from your father, your news journalism and just it seems like you're you know your awareness of political events or you know power play is something that is you've imbibed from a young age.

That's true.

I was born this way and by this way I mean an extrovert and I had a safe and uncomplicated childhood.

And that is luck.

You know, you can argue if you believe in a more metaphysical sense that we choose these scenarios that we are born into.

If I made a choice, I made a good choice in ways to be a storyteller who can, without harm, play characters who are challenged, like Katherine Graham.

I've never experienced the trauma that she's experienced, and so I'm safe when I play her.

You know, the research, not just like an intellectual construct, but how you weave together something until it becomes a part of you.