I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is, there are certain ways I might've pushed it even a little more. For example, [to Warren] your accent. I know Warner Bros. at one point came in. I don't know, until you came to set, I know I wore that long tartan skirt and the ruffled blouse for that.

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.