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Saving you a click: Regular internalized performance nerves, nothing too interesting.

What was something that you were maybe most like nervous about going into it?

Everything. All of it. I was nervous about doing the character justice. I was nervous about what it would be like to work in a giant franchise, because I’ve never experienced that before. I was nervous about being bad. I was nervous that the swings I was taking would be embarrassing, sort of your run-of-the-mill shame tornado, kind of everything and anything.

I was going to say, “At what point did you feel like you got over it?” But did you? Because that’s sometimes a thing that actors have to just compartmentalize.

I experience this with a lot of what I work on, and I know other actors do too. I definitely calm down once I know there’s a certain amount of footage that they have. And I know that, like, at this point, it would be hard for them to fire me because they shot so much of it. I usually am like, “I think they would tell me by now if I were fired,” but so always in the beginning, it’s nerve wracking. So by the time we got to 4, I was like, “I think they would have let me go by now.”