Are they going to be very personal questions?
Yeah.
Deep.
Like hard hitting.
So you're Brazilian.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
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Can I just start this, taking this out of the way?
Knowing you was one of the best things that happened to me.
I truly love you, Lizzie.
You, too.
And I want everybody here to know that.
I feel the same way.
And I think this connection sort of formed from day one
and then got deeper.
I will never forget the day that we were
doing this scene in the car.
- Yes! - We really didn't know each other well.
But, you know, and then we were stuck in this car.
Yeah.
And we were driving.
Yeah.
There was a crew in another car shooting us.
And then they said, make a left.
[LAUGHS] Yeah.
And then we made a left.
Neither of us know how to drive around Chicago.
And then we ended up in the freeway.
[LAUGHS] Yes.
And the radio stopped working.
And I didn't have a cell phone.
And it was like, and I was a Brazilian dude driving--
This old car.
This old car with no connection with anyone.
Nope.
Basically, we were like literally--
We were on our way to Indiana.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah, we did contemplate just continuing to drive--
To drive.
To Indiana, just never going back.
And I think that after that--
That was it.
That was the moment.
That was--
I was like, I called the AD.
And I was like, "I don't know where we are."
"Can you please tell us how to come back?"
Come rescue us.
What is the show about?
[LAUGHTER]
For me, the show is about this women struggling
to regain her power in a very tricky situation
because the guy who attacked her is not a regular serial killer.
He's a dude that travels--
Through time.
And it's like, in order to do that, she
has the help of this journalist, this guy that I play,
who is a very complicated man, and who is also
trying to regain his power.
One of the things that I think that connects Kirby and Dan
is that they are both very vulnerable human beings
in a very specific moment of their lives.
And also sort of hiding something
about themselves, right?
Hiding a truth about themselves
that they feel like they can't expose to anybody else.
In Kirby's case, it's the trauma that she went through.
And it's the fact that her whole world shifts.
For me in the beginning, Kirby is a means for me
to get my big story about it, which
is my comeback into journalism.
But then there is something about this woman.
When things change for you, do you recognize it?
Sometimes.
Other times, they're just random.
This is a question that I have for you.
You're always so cool in a set.
Do you ever get nervous?
I don't know if I get nervous that much anymore.
Emotional stuff, I'm fine.
That doesn't make me nervous.
That I can do.
I know how to do that.
But if I've got a scene with a lot of dialogue,
I get anxious, or tense.
The scene at the back of the Bee Happy Bar.
Things change for me just like that.
And nobody knows any different.
Not only was it a lot of dialogue,
but it was a lot of tricky dialogue.
Having to figure out how to explain the shifts to you
and really wanting the scene to work,
and really wanting it to work as a director.
So that's where I get a little anxious.
Lizzie, I was always like watching you direct
and acting at the same time, which is something
that you have done before, especially
coming from doing a very strong scene,
and things were going on.
And then at some point, you said, "cut".
Very sweet.
And I'm like, how does that work for you?
I've always thought in terms of editing.
I've always been really aware of what shots were going
to be used for which moments.
There are times when I definitely
have to remind myself not to be the director,
and to just be the actor, either when
it's a really important performance moment
for my character, or when it's an important performance
moment for the other character.
What I love about directing you is learning how far I could
push you and how far you could go,
and knowing that you were totally
happy to be pushed to go all the way,
practically off of the cliff.
This is him.
I don't know how to explain it.
But this is him.
No, there will be none of that.
This is him.
This is him!
We're not doing any of that.
What are the kind of stories that you want to tell?
How did you come across Shining Girls?
For me, I wanted to do a show that wasn't like something
I had seen before.
What I loved about this is I've never
done anything that was as magical.
I've never done anything that had any sort of time travel
element to it and yet was really grounded.
The mix of genres, I think that's very exciting
and kind of unique.
It was never you.
It's this house.
I feel like I should ask you a question.
You're asking me all kinds of questions.
I'm a journalist.
Tell me about-- cause I remember--
no, but you do love journalism.
I do.
I think that journalism is a very, very important thing.
And I really, really respect journalists
that keep doing their thing despite of anything else.
Yeah.
You are still here.
And no one could forget you.
This show has something that's very interesting and connected
to the world nowadays, which is women empowerment.
Yeah.
It's about the woman that survived and struggled
to regain her power, and also to not allow
that to happen to other women.
I think that's what Dan and Kirby connect
about, is they want to tell the women who didn't make it,
who didn't survive.
And they want to tell their stories.
And they don't want them to just be forgotten.
You think the world owes you, and that you
can take whatever you want.
But this is mine.
This was a truly great, amazing experience in my life.
To be with you, to know you, to become your friend
for me, the greatest thing.
That's how I feel.
I agree.
And I agree the greatest thing for me
and the experience of making the show
has been the relationship between
you and I that has developed.
[LAUGHTER]
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