Susan is Susan Sarandon, Aubrey's co-star in the upcoming indie drama, The Accompanist.

I said, it's designed that you're exhausted because it's scary, but then by the time you get to your ninth month, you're like, just get it out.

She's pretty far along.

I think she'll be fun and a great mom.

I'm curious then to go back to the beginning, though, that you, you said in some interview, I can't remember which one, but you said, uh, "I knew enough not to act." I'm paraphrasing slightly, but I wanna know what that meant, because it, obviously you'd figured something out.

Well, the, I would just go over it, and in a very simplistic way of what each scene, you know, why the scene, and, and just know the dialogue well enough that when I was then with my partner who, uh, was in the scene, I could just respond.

I'm a very good listener, which I think, you know, whenever people say, "Well, you're still, you know, sexy, you're still doing these things," and I'm like, "No, I'm just, like, a good listener." And when people see two people on screen that you believe see each other in a way that nobody else has seen them, that connection, that chemistry, I think can read as different things.

And also, it's all about compassion.

You learn to understand that really, given a circumstance that you never thought would affect you in any way, that you are affected, that you have so much in common with everyone, that people basically all want the same thing, need the same thing.

And so in having the opportunity to play someone in a different set of circumstances, um, even bad mothers, good mothers, whatever, you, it's kind of enforced compassion.

You know? You, you, you just learn so much, so it's a great job.

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