Dever:I watched you guys in season 1, and your relationship was so beautiful.
And watching the end of you guys was really, really hard for me, as a viewer.
Pascal:I knew that she [Dever] had been cast, but she didn’t know thatIknew.
Dever:It was just a massive scene emotionally, and with blocking, too.
There were so many moving parts and so many things to navigate.
Dever:To be as honest as possible.
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I will just say that my days leading up to this scene were horrible.
SoI was sort of in a fog.
I was in a daze.
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Mazin:We said, “Take your time.
Take all the time you need.”
While I care extraordinarily about the show, it’s a TV show.
[Dever’s requests were] minimal, which were easy to honor and then off we went.
Usually if I have a monologue like that, I’m memorizing it three weeks before I do it.
I was able to sort of…
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The camera often lingers on her, thus allowing the audience to see every nuance of Dever’s work.
It had very little to do with healing, but a ripple of more pain and trauma.
It’s hard to believe Joel is really dead, even though knowing this moment would eventually come.
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