“It gave me a different kind of confidence, because I definitely rallied under pressure. I actually was like, ‘I just want to go home.’ But then what? You’re here. “We are far more resilient than we realize and sometimes we have to stop our minds from telling us stories that prevent us from that resilience. I think I’m starting to sweat now just thinking about it (laughs).” But I literally started sweating watching it. What a privileged problem, I sound so ridiculous. “I did end up watching that scene (from the day she learned her lines at the last minute) and it was completely cringe-y because of the memory of what I was going through when we shot it. The more you know the lines and the dialogue, then the easier you can throw it away so it sounds like it’s inspired rather than learned. There’s a monologue in ‘Midnight Mass’ where I have to say technical medical terms like ‘erythropoietic protoporphyria’ and everybody in my family knows that monologue because around the dinner table I would say, ‘Oh yeah, erythropoietic protoporphyria,’ because for me, it’s about repetition. I certainly don’t have a photographic memory. “Learning my lines, for me, has always been about repetition. And I came through and I’m proud of my performance. I was under pressure to deliver and I did. But I had some sort of mental acuity in the moment. On stage, you can’t cut and check your sides to refresh your memory.
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And film and TV are a kinder medium for this sort of thing. “I fumbled through, but you know that aphorism ‘fake it ‘til you make it’? That’s what I did. What was it like actually doing those scenes? And I survived, although not without some emotional moments beforehand - I was on my hands and knees in my trailer like, ‘I can’t do this!’ - but I did it.” It took a little more time and it was imperfect from what I envisioned. “The good news of the story is that everyone, from top to bottom, cast and crew, were supportive. Now I’m super anal about asking if there are rewrites or not. “It was terrifying and I hope it never happens again. Put on your big girl pants and make it work. “Needless to say, I had a ‘come to Jesus’ moment in my trailer and I was like: Annabeth, you have to do this.
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