“There were nights where I would go into my apartment in New York and cry.

“It was a lot of up-and-down emotions, because this project lived or died with me.”

Not only didThe Flight Attendantlive, the darkly comic thriller soared.

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Kaley Cuoco covers EW’s special Emmys issue.Credit: HBO

“I felt like I played 10 different women.

I played the fun best friend.

I played the sister.

I played a girl who has serious trauma,” she says of Cassie.

“It was an actor’s dream.”

In the meantime, perhaps these teases aboutThe Flight Attendantseason 2 will tide you over.

I think there will be a little bit of the CIA-asset stuff, on the side.”

We know he’s dead, but will Alex (Michiel Huisman) be back?

“I don’t think he will,” says Cuoco.