I love the show.
It's exhausting.
I mean, I was so exhausted after watching this, I needed to lie down.
Was it a similar experience making it when all was said and done?
Was there a sense of relief as well as accomplishment in this instance?
I don't know if a sense of relief is the right if the right word, but
it's just very interesting.
When you are you're getting a taste of the intense complexities.
That was that was involved in
you know, we're getting a taste of that in the storytelling
in it.
And then kind of seeing it mirroring back to what's happening
now with COVID.
It's just it's just a great reminder
of how relevant it was and still is.
And, you know, at what point
can things change?
And my hope is that if, you know, people watch this, have discussions
and people don't agree about, you know, what their
what they've what they've experienced in the series.
But maybe there's a deeper awareness of maybe what can change
so that something like this doesn't ever happen again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe relief sort of implies
that it was something you didn't enjoy, but I'm sure
it was an incredibly rewarding experience making this.
But I mean, the. Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
I mean, the effects of Hurricane Katrina were just so devastating.
But what are your memories from from that time?
My memories are from watching it from afar
and not believing
what I was watching and seeing a lot of people who look like me
being affected
and not understanding why,
why those things were happening in
in a place that has a lot of resources.
It was very confusing
and very hard to deal with.
Then at some point you just have to watch with a soft focus
because it's just to it's just too painful
and to
it's just too painful
to kind of really take it all in.
Those are my memories. Yeah.
I mean, a story, this kind of good and kind of interesting
needs an accomplished hand.
And John Ridley, as is as as good as I get at the moment, you've obviously
worked on one of his screenplays before.
How impressed were you by his writing?
What does he what did he bring to this story?
I think what John Ridley and Carlton Cuse brought was
such care and tenderness
in the storytelling,
but also in terms of the fact that we were all coming together
and that we needed to we needed to handle this story with care.
But they led by example just in terms of like the conversations that were had,
they were open to talking through things and
and really bringing together a group of people.
I don't know how they did it, but a group of people that just were
where I felt completely supported in telling
a very complex, intense
story.
I mean, these nurses and doctors are superheroes.
I mean, when you play characters under this immense pressure
where the decisions are literally life or death.
Does that does that also help your perspective in any way?
Because I did this show in this character
and what she had to go through, rub off on you in that way.
You know, it's interesting.
I have family members who are health care professionals.
And even though they're my family and I think I have an idea of what they do,
just this
this very, in my opinion, surface,
surface in a sense that I'm not I'm not I'm not on the ground.
I'm not I'm not in the ground.
I'm I'm telling the story of people who are
in particularly in this time, in this day and age
with COVID like it really hit home like, wow.
Like just
the level of
the level of intensity
of what they do and how important they are and how much they are taken for granted.
That's one thing I really got really clear is like, wow,
these people are taken for granted because
because they are literally
on the front lines with
with little support in many cases.
And in this case, in the series, you know, the system completely broke down
where they had to basically fend for themselves.
Patients in the hospital and the families.
Thank you so much.
I completely agree.
Thank you so much for your time today
and best of luck with the release of the show. Thank you.
I appreciate you.
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