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From that premise, ronnie/lily morphs into something self-contained, violently surreal, and wholly unique.

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Wed been talking about doing an entire episode where a hit goes wrong.Barryshowrunner Alec Berg said.

You know Space Mountain at Disneyland?

It always works, to get people into a certain rhythm and then throw them off of it.

Without any dialogue to humanize her, she delivers a performance that straddles the line of human and beast.

I imagined my own father dying, and Id get really upset.

I could turn into an animal, attacking everything in sight, let out my inner monster a little.

I was on a wire connected to a harness, said Giacomazzi, whos also done stunts onWestworld.

People would pull the wire to make me rise up or float to the side or things like that.

It was definitely fun!

Of course, the reality of the scene was much less bloody.

To Giacomazzi, making one of the years best TV episodes was little more than structured, hyperviolent playtime.

I did it a few times.

Then I got used to it.

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