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This interview contains spoilers for everything up to the seventh episode ofThe Flight Attendant.
To hear Mamet tell it, thats intentional.
Plus it helps that theyre both true horse girls.
Ill get to questions about the plot, but first I have to know everything about Annies apartment.
Specifically, the fact thatthere is a showerright in the middle of it.
Was it just on a soundstage?Literally everybody is asking about that apartment!
We built it on one of our stages, but it was the coolest apartment ever.
The shower in the center of the room says a lot about Annie.
But yeah, I asked Sara, Can I just live in this apartment?
Theres working water, right?
Ive always been the zany character.
Annie has gotten through a lot of the shady aspects of her life by denying them.
Cassie is often the person pressing Annie and making things come undone.
My first audition was with her in front of everyone and their mother.
We just immediately started to improv together, and it was as if wed always been working together.
People ask if we knew each other before, and we didnt.
Cassie pushes Annies boundaries to get a rise out of her, like sisters.
Youre both playing against expectations on this show.
Was that something the two of you talked about?We definitely talked about it a lot.
We ended up tearily voice-noting each other back and forth a lot of it was us understanding each other.
I was in awe of Kaley for taking this huge leap with all these eyes watching.
To be like,Im gonna create this thing for myself.
Im gonna play an entirely different character.And she slays!
I sent her a super-teary voice note saying that, and she was like, I know!
I feel that way!
How did you think about playing that?It was similar to the scene in the prison.
Thats what happens to Annie she starts to get her priorities straight.
She realizes she needs to stop denying all this stuff.
Did that change your process as an actor?
Do you have to work differently with these precautions?I love the intimate environment of shooting.
You become a family, and I was worried that the protocols would cancel that out.
The cast and crew really knew each other.
We created a well-oiled machine.
It didnt feel like that changed, and it didnt feel like the protocols stifled it at all.
You and Kaley are both horse girls.
Its something Ive seen you both talk about a lot.
Have you gotten to go riding together?We havent gotten to the riding together!
We were trying to make it happen, but filming was just way too intense.
Its definitely on the agenda.
We text about horses constantly.
I think thats a big part of what created our immediate bond.
If youre a horse girl, you just know.
What do you text about your horses?
Im not a horse person, but Im curious!You know, it depends!
My husband, Evan Jonigkeit, is shooting in Pittsburgh.
She was like, Absolutely!
The only thing that wasnt fun was running in a corset.
That day was shockingly cold.
We did a fitting to check that that one could physically run in a corset.
I mean, we knew they could because Louisa May Alcott actually did, which is crazy.
