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“The way I came into this show is unlike any other experience in my whole professional life,” she began, noting that she was first introduced to the show with a vague description of it before asking for a script. “No, there is no script,” she heard back. “What do you mean there’s no script?” she asked.doesn’t have scripts ready beforehand and in fact only begins writing them when the characters are cast.
For Mirren, however, the virtual conversation was not enough to jump onboard just yet. “I quickly realized that, especially over Zoom, he doesn’t know who I am or what I’m like or the feeling of my personality so I thought that it was very important that we meet face to face,” she said, noting that Sheridan then accepted her invite to meet in-person.
“He very kindly invited me down to his ranch and I had a great dinner with him and his wife and we had bottles of wine and we chatted and then I felt comfortable that he knew me and also I knew him,” she recalled. “I immediately said ‘Yes, I want to do this, I think this sounds like a wonderful adventure.'”
Now officially onboard, Mirren just had to wait to find out more details once the script arrived. “A month or something like that later, the script arrived and I read the first scene and I went ‘Wow this is gonna be great’ and off we went,” she said. “And it’s been an adventure ever since that I’ve loved.
Though she isn’t a fan of guns, she was deeply connected to Cara’s emotions at that time. “In fact, we open the whole series with that moment, which is painful for Cara, that’s why she cries out afterwards in pain and agony about what she’s just done, but it comes out of a violent ambush that her family has just experienced,” she explained. “She’s witnessed her friends and relatives being shot down in front of her so she’s in a very heightened state when she takes that act.
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