It Feels That Way When I'm Doing

It Certainly Woke Me Up To How Vulnerable We All Are. I Think I Was Much More Cavalier About It Before I Started Working On The Movie [edward Snowden], And Then The More I Read The Documents Themselves And Saw Just How Sweeping And Indiscriminate The Intrusions Into Our Privacy Have Been, It Made Me More Aware.

My Return To The Theater In New York Was So Specific. I Didn't Want It To Be About Leveraging My Exposure Or My Fame, So The First Show I Did In New York Was An Ensemble Piece At An Off-broadway Theater, And I Wanted To Make Sure That It Was Just About The Play And About The Experience.

I Didn't Get A Chance To Meet Glen [beck] For This Movie. I Did Meet Him A Few Years Ago, Coincidentally, Before Any Of This Happened. But I've Been Familiar With His Work, So I Felt I Wanted To Get It Right. I Wanted To Honor Him. I Respect Him And I Think The Way He Does His Job Is Admirable. Yeah, There Was An Added Incentive. I Wouldn't Call It Pressure, But Incentive Perhaps.

I Would Love To Be A Voice In This Maelstrom Of Chaos And Obsessive Celebrity Infatuation That Says, 'let's Talk About Something That Matters'.

We Did Monologues And Scenes, And New York I Did A Scene From Amadeus And A Monologue From Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead By Eric Bogosian, And Then In L.a. I Switched The Scene To This Is Our Youth And Did The Same Monologue. I Was Spiky-haired, Super Skinny. A Lot Of People Were Like, "you Should Come Here And Do A Sitcom." That Was The Feedback That I Got. Obviously It Was Quite A Different Journey Than The One I've Actually Had, But I Just Listened To People.