Sutton Foster, Jesse Williams, Tracy Letts, Michael R. Jackson, and Camille A.
Brown gather for the latest episode of EW’s The Awardist podcast.
“When they first approached me about three years ago to play her, my first response was ‘What?
Jesse Williams in ‘Take Me Out’.Joan Marcus
I didn’t understand.
She adds, “I was pretty confident I would be fired.
I just really didn’t know how it was going to turn out.”
Jesse Williams in ‘Take Me Out’.Joan Marcus
It turned out pretty well, actually.
“I’m obsessed with understandinghowpeople think about things.
I don’t carewhatthey think, but how,” Jackson explains.
“I just started to view it as a real opportunity to dig and build and play…
It continues to be, every night, frankly, a life lesson on letting go.
Maybe that scene felt funky.
Maybe I felt like I dropped out there for a moment.
I don’t beat myself up and let it domino into the next five scenes.
I’m the rookie here.
I love feeling alive and processing new information and asking questions.
So this is a dream.”
But it’s the first he’s written in which he also acts.
“It’s a very odd position to be in.
I’ve never been in it before.
So it feels very new to me.”
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