How are you?
I'm good.
I like your shirt.
Yes. So I interviewed Cara Buono yesterday, so for continuity.
I've also put it on.
I don't have a The Boys t shirt.
My apologies, because it's just that each one is for every single person.
The more Dear Evan Hansen, one for Colton Ryan.
I love the show. It's fine,
but hey, it's all consuming that show.
Congratulations on your show.
Thank you.
It's really kind of riveting stuff.
I don't find myself bingeing on on many things anymore.
I kind of like the week on week release, but this one,
I couldn't really stop watching it.
It's very bizarre.
Where do you where do you sit on binge watching? Are you.
Are you a binge watch or do you enjoy the kind of old school week to week?
Have some watercooler moments in between.
Kind of.
Do I wonder if there's like a correlation until like other parts of your life
whether or not you're a binge or because I don't want to be a binge,
and yet I cannot help myself.
I think that takes such,
such rigor to not binge.
Like if it's available, I will do it.
But I would prefer it not to be available so that I can.
I want someone else to control it for me because I can't control myself.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm a little hypocritical now.
I've said that because I've got this TV show
and then I blitzed it like two days straight of things, so.
And I blitz this one,
so I don't know, maybe it's maybe I'm changing as I get older now.
I mean, it's a it's a it's a subject matter that's that's quite recent
and very relevant for for many different reasons. So.
What was the initial lure for you?
Was it
was it the script and the series, or did you know a bit about the case before?
Was it something that intrigued you going into it?
I knew about the case
before I followed in real time, and then I'd seen the documentary.
So when this project came up, I thought, Oh,
that's going to be really interesting,
but I didn't really see a part for myself in it, and they offered me
the part of Katie Rayburn, and it was pretty surprising.
I don't think that there had been anything in my past career that would have said,
Oh, that would be a good fit, which is of course, why I had to take it.
I mean that to get an opportunity like that is very rare.
I often get offered things that are exactly like the things I did
before because people want to guarantee that they're paying
for the thing they know you can do.
So it felt like such a gift to have Patrick and Liz
offer me that role and to take on just a different kind of challenge.
Yeah, it's a different kind of challenge.
And also when you're dealing with real people
and real events, even though it's, you know, a series and a dramatization
of it, obviously, that comes with its own kind of unique pressures.
Did did you feel any pressure playing, playing Katie?
Because obviously, she's she's a big part of what's transpired in the time
since that, you know, the initial initial event, if you like.
I did.
And I was very quickly released from that by the creators.
They're like, we're not you don't have to play her.
You're playing the fictionalized version of her.
And they didn't, you know, dye my hair the same color we didn't do.
You know, the I didn't have to look like her,
but whatever was helpful, I was allowed to take.
So, for example, I have like red nails in the courtroom
because I thought that was an interesting
thing for someone to make that choice to do bright red nails in the courtroom.
Like, what does that say about you?
Or like the way she holds her head sometimes or her
her style of interrogation.
But it wasn't mimicry.
So that gave some freedom.
And, you know, I would imagine that
if she saw
this, she would say, this is not her
and it's not it's it's Katie Rayburn of the girl
from Plainville versus Katie Rayburn, who was actually in the case.
Yeah. What's it like to play a lawyer?
I've always been fascinated
by sort of lawyers, like, you know, I love films like A Few Good Men.
I used to love Suits and Boston Legal and all these things.
And some of them are very serious and some of them are very playful
in the way they do things.
You know, it's is a job that has lots of money and extravagance, however.
What's it like for you as an actor to play someone like that?
Because that opportunity, as you say, doesn't doesn't come along quite so often.
It's well, I think actually there's tons of lawyer roles.
I've just usually I mean, I have the face of somebody who's been in trouble
or the other way or the other side.
Yeah, but you do the other side of the law.
But I, I liked it because there's this whole performance
aspect to it, which I think is really interesting,
like how do you do a performance of a performance?
So there is like there is almost more of a truth to it
than a normal role because you don't have cameras necessarily
rolling in your everyday life watching you do those normal things.
But when you are a lawyer, there's often cameras,
there's an audience in the jury or the judge or the gallery.
I mean, there's there's so many things that make it feel like it's actually
so it feels in some ways easier because you are creating a performance.
And I thought that was really interesting.
Yeah, I was going to I won't ask you about the other thing
because I feel like it's still kind of fresh for people on the other series.
Maybe, maybe not.
I will ask you about it because it's said things that people haven't seen yet, but,
you know, I'll let them I'll let them see that.
I thank you so much for your for your time.
Really appreciate it. And good luck with the show.
Have a good weekend. Thanks so much. Thanks so much, Tess.