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- For better or for worse,
how do you wish you were more like your character?
- Dawn is apologetic and I like that.
In a man's world.
And she's driven, she's driven like a man.
And sometimes, I don't even know that means
but I think sometimes when women are driven,
we're a little apologetic for being driven.
But she's not and so there are just things about her,
her strength, even when
she doesn't have it together,
that she still plows through, that I like.
- I think one of the things you've talked about
with Black Monday is this idea that you were excited
not to be the joy killer
and there are certain things about this role
that were freeing for you.
Can you speak a little bit to that
and what made you say yeah?
- It was great to be able to be in the 80s
and be successful.
And be in a world, no matter what color you are,
a woman who's Spanish, black, white,
they just weren't in really Wall Street
and they still really aren't.
So to represent a demographic that's not normally
present in a world, even today, was fun.
But then for her to be as cunning, as sharp
and as wild and unapologetic,
she's gross as the men.
She just knows that there are moments where
business has to get taken care of
or it won't get done.
But she's not judgemental of it.
And I liked to be able to do that.
'Cause I find that most women
who I know are like that.
They're quite fun.
Quite delightful and quite smart and dirty
and a little raunchy,
and all things, and they're not just...
Not you.
There's no raunch in this one.
- It's me, yeah.
- It's definitely not you.
You're a wallflower.
- [Lacey] Yes, wallflower.
- But none of the women here,
they're so complex.
And I think sometimes, we don't get to show
the complexity of who we are.
And that was just interesting to play.
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- What have you learned from how to handle the peaks,
as well as how to handle the valleys?
- I feel like with everything,
you have to just enjoy where you are,
what's for you is for you.
I think when I first started,
I thought that you got to a place where it was done.
But it's not always...
It's not in the way that you think.
There's always work.
It's not a destination arrived,
if that makes sense.
- It makes sense to me,
very much so.
- [Regina] Okay, okay, good.
- We're cool.
- Oh right, that makes me so happy.
- No, but it does
because I agree with you and that I thought that it would
look like what I thought it would look like.
- Yes, yes.
And then you thought it'd feel different,
that you'd feel settled.
Like oh I've-
- Well the sense of I'll never get another job
never goes away, I can tell you that.
- That's exactly what I mean
and I thought that would-
- My dad had it until the day he died
and I have it, and it never goes away.
And it's fine.
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- What are the things where you say
I'm not gonna say that?
- Yeah, we do that.
I mean there was a joke
and I can't remember but it was
a joke I think about drugs and it was about Whitney Houston
and I was like I don't wanna say that.
The artist gives so much, you know what I mean,
and so to make fun of what was a challenge and an illness,
you know what I mean,
and the great thing about our writers is they were like
"Absolutely, we'll just do something else."
- [Lacey] Moving on.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I identify with that.
I don't like that low-hanging fruit, snarky humor.
I'm like there are so many real jokes out there
and there's so much funny, weird shit
happening all the time,
like why that?
- All right, complete this sentence,
I knew I made it in Hollywood when.
- I think sometimes, you know what makes me feel that way?
When you meet people who you admire
and they know your work.
That's a moment when I feel it.
Because most of the time,
I don't expect people to know me.
And so when it's someone I love,
the first time I met Maya,
and then they go "Oh I love your work",
that is when I feel like okay, it's that.
- [Lacey] Sure.
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