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Interview with Lily Rabe of "American Horror Story: Asylum" on FX 1/8/13

Final Transcript
FX NETWORK: American Horror Story: Asylum
January 8, 2013/10:00 a.m. PST

SPEAKERS
Roslyn Bibby
Lily Rabe

PRESENTATION

Moderator Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the American Horror Story Asylum call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session. Instructions will be given at that time. As a reminder this conference is being recorded. I’d now like to turn the conference over to our host Roslyn Bibby. Please go ahead.

R. Bibby Good morning, everyone, and happy holidays. Before we start, of course I’d like to thank Lily for being on the call with us today. Your stand-out performance on American Horror Story this season was so fun and interesting to watch, not to mention a great performance last season; and of course thanks to the journalists as always for being us this week for participating on the call.

Just so you guys know, I sent out a link on yesterday for episode 11, “Spilt Milk.” If you did not receive it, please let me know and I’ll be more than happy to get it to you. And Lola, we’ll open it up with the first question.

Moderator Now first we will go to the line of Kristyn Clarke with Pulp Culture Madness.

K. Clarke Hello, Lily, thank you so much for speaking with us today.

L. Rabe Hello, thank you so much.

K. Clarke So I’m curious how far in advance did you know what your character’s fate was going to be? Did you kind of have an idea about that from the beginning?

L. Rabe I had some sense, yes, I knew that she probably wouldn’t have a very happy ending, so I did have a sense and then sort of as we went along the specifics of how that was all going to happen became clearer as we went along.

K. Clarke Absolutely. It almost seemed like kind of that that scene was a relief. What was it like for you to kind of explore the light and dark sides of a character like Mary Eunice?

L. Rabe Yes, I think the death scene, the way Ryan and I really talked about it it’s really sort of an assisted suicide. Her situation really wasn’t survivable in the sense that even if they had done some sort of exorcism or something at that point, we sort of felt that whatever might be left of that girl was so damaged and destroyed and that death sort of became her only way out. Yes, playing that through once the possession happened that was such a wonderful challenge and a sort of dance really to live between with both the lightness and the darkness existing at the same time in that battle and then that losing battle really.

K. Clarke Great, thank you so much.

L. Rabe Thank you so much.

Moderator Next we’ll go to the line of Kim Roots with TVline.com.

K. Roots Hey, Lily.

L. Rabe Hey, how are you?

K. Roots I’m good, thanks so much for talking with us today. I know you’ve said that that you don’t want to be seen, it was kind of daunting when you knew you had to be lip synching and you’re all by yourself, but were there any scenes that involved other people that either the subject matter, or just anything about it made them kind of you dreaded them coming up when you saw them?

L. Rabe You know the cremation scene was very, very difficult for me. When I read it, I knew I thought, oh, this is going to be tricky, it’s going to be a little tough, but it was much harder than I had even imagined it would be. But other than that, you know I really like when I read a scene and it scares me. That sort of makes me excited.

I was so even though, yes, lip synching or not really lip synching, singing along with the ear bud or whatever, it was such a thrill and the director sort of gave me the whole room. He just had it set up so that they could shoot the whole room, and I could really have total freedom to do whatever and that’s really so much fun, so for the most part I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit thinking about doing it. That’s usually a good sign to me.

K. Roots And just a quick add-on in the cremation scene, were you feeling heat on your feet? Was there actually heat going on near you or is that kind of added afterwards?

L. Rabe No, no, there wasn’t real, the fire wasn’t hot, that was sort of added in. There was a lot of smoke. You know truthfully, I don’t know how those special effects people do it, but it was rather terrifying the situation, but no, I wasn’t worried about getting burned.

K. Roots Thank you.

Moderator Next we’ll go to the line of Earl Dittman with Wireless Digital.

E. Dittman Hello, Lily, how are you this morning?

L. Rabe Hey, how are you?

E. Dittman Doing great, doing great. I have to say it’s one of the most incredible roles on the show and you do a wonderful job.

L. Rabe Thank you.

E. Dittman But I have to say you know in American Horror Story, dead is never dead as we have learned so far, so I know you can’t talk about it, but I just have to say what did you find in the process when you took on the role, when you first talked to Ryan about it, what did you find the most difficult part of the whole role? You play it really perfectly, so what part was really the toughest for you?

L. Rabe Well, you know, I think some of the murders having sort of in those moments where she was just absolutely sort of in her completely taken over by the devil and throwing these actors around and slitting their throats and stabbing them ruthlessly and all of that sort of, you know I’ve been the victim a lot, so I’ve often played the person who’s getting raped or murdered or abused. And so to actually be raping and murdering and abusing people is a whole different kind of challenge and one that it was very difficult at times and sometimes I would sort of go home from work and just kind of stare at the wall for a couple of hours. But I can’t complain, because easily if whatever kind of knocks you out working is the kind of work that I want to be doing because it’s always those challenges that are the most exciting and the things I hope to get to keep doing in my work.

E. Dittman Now are you doing any stage? I had a great chance to catch you on the Shakespeare in the Park rep stage.

L. Rabe Oh, I’m so glad.

E. Dittman You were just fantastic.

L. Rabe Thank you so much. I loved doing it so much.

E. Dittman And so what are you doing next?

L. Rabe Well, there is some stuff coming up, it’s all—

E. Dittman Talk about it?

L. Rabe Yes, but I will definitely be doing a play in the near future for sure.

E. Dittman Just the other day by accident I caught you on one of the old Law & Order episodes and I thought oh my gosh, there she is, so thanks again.

L. Rabe Oh, I’m sure in that one I was being beaten up and not beating, right?

E. Dittman Yeah, you were probably being raped or beaten up or something in that one. Thank you so much and I’ll let somebody else talk. Thanks again.

L. Rabe Thank you so much.

Moderator Next we’ll go to the line of Karen Moul with Scifivision.com.

K. Moul Hello, thanks so much for being with us today.

L. Rabe Absolutely, thank you.

K. Moul This was a show that I couldn’t even watch last year and loved it this year.

L. Rabe Oh, I’m so glad that you loved it.

K. Moul I did and I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about Dr. Arden’s relationship with Sister Mary Eunice and his decision in the end to kill himself, who is that a victory for, if anyone?

L. Rabe Oh gosh, a victory, I don’t know, I don’t know. I never thought of it. I always thought of it as sort of the perfect ending for the two of them. It seemed so fitting and of course we were always talking about, James Cromwell and I were always sitting around talking about Shakespeare like big theater dorks and so we felt like we’d gotten a nice, Ryan had given us a sort of beautiful Shakespearian ending in a horror story Shakespearian ending.

But I think it seemed sort of completely sort of the perfect end to the very, very, very bizarre and complicated and dark love story of sorts. I think for him he really had loved her for so long and been so devoted to her; and I can’t speak for Jamie, but I feel like that was just maybe the last straw for him.

K. Moul Yes, when I watching it I was thinking okay has Sister Mary Eunice, had she kind of freed him from this horrible life or is this the devil’s like whole destruction of him in the end.

L. Rabe Right, I think in the way that she dies, which is certainly I think I said this earlier to someone, but more of a sort of an assisted suicide, a sort of consensual death with the Monsignor. And I think that she’s certainly trying to free herself and also get this devil that she has become away from everyone else. I think it is sort of her most heroic moment and also sort of her only, really her only choice at that point. But I think that, yeah, there is having taking Dr. Arden away with her is certainly not a bad thing for everybody else who is left alive, although there’s still a whole lot of stuff to work out and a lot of evil left around that’s for sure.

K. Moul Yes, well, it was great to watch, thanks so much.

L. Rabe Thank you so much, I’m so glad you liked it.

Moderator Next we’ll go to the line of—

L. Rabe Hang on one second, my door is buzzing. I just want to see what’s happening, one second. Okay, I’ll see if it happens again, sorry. Oh, it’s happening again, hold on one second.

Sorry about that.

Moderator That’s okay. Next we’ll go to the line of Jeff Berkshire with Zap2it.com.

J. Berkshire Hello, Lily.

L. Rabe Hey, how are you?

J. Berkshire Hello, it’s so great to talk to you. You were really terrific this season.

L. Rabe Oh, thank you. It’s lovely to talk to you.

J. Berkshire And you were great obviously in the first season, too, and I think the logical question is will you be back in season three? Have you started talking to Ryan about it? I know that you can’t probably say, but what kind of character do you think you would like to play, because I know that he sort of goes through the actors and asks a little bit what they’d like to do next and kind of tries to give them something different than what they’re done before.

L. Rabe Yes, well, he certainly succeeded in that this season with everyone so brilliantly and I’m sure he will just of course do that again. I don’t know. I think Ryan’s ideas are usually better than mine, but yes, I don’t know. I don’t know, but certainly something you just want to do something different. That’s the joy of what the setup is.

J. Berkshire But you do think you’ll be back.

L. Rabe I have no idea. I can’t say a word. I’m so sorry. I know it’s such a boring interview sometimes with us at American Horror Story, so that I just can’t say a word.

J. Berkshire Okay, well I certainly hope to see you again.

L. Rabe Thank you so much. I would certainly love to be back that’s for sure. It’s such a great job.

J. Berkshire Yes, thank you.
L. Rabe Thank you.

Moderator Next we’ll go to the line of Juana Poareo with Yourentertainerplanner.com.

J. Poareo Hello, Lily, I’m glad I’m talking to you this morning. Anyway I have a question for you. I really enjoyed how you embodied the devil in Sister Mary, I’m wondering how did you approach it because I feel that the combination of comedy and horror and I’m wondering if the director somehow guided you on how to play the devil in your character?

L. Rabe Yes, you know the truth is the way that I approached it really was to figure out before we started shooting the most important thing to me was to really figure out who Sister Mary Eunice was and not really worry about the possession or the devil because to me so much of what a possession is is specific to the person. So that to play the sort of dark side or underbelly of someone or their sort of shadow taking over it’s really about knowing who that person is before that event has taken place of this dark thing sort of taking over. So it was more about figuring out who she really was through and through.

J. Poareo Oh, okay, I like that answer.

L. Rabe Oh good.

J. Poareo … I don’t know what else, but thank you very much.

L. Rabe Thank you so much.

Moderator Next we’ll go to the line of Monique Jones with TVEquals.com.

M. Jones Hello, how are you today?

L. Rabe I’m well, thank you, how are you?

M. Jones I’m good. What was it like working with Joseph Fiennes for this role?

L. Rabe Oh, I had such a wonderful time with Joseph. He’s such a wonderful guy and so generous and so much fun to act with and we ended up, we didn’t have so much to do together at the beginning of the season, but we ended up having so much to do in those last few episodes; and I had a great time with him, I think he’s so special.
M. Jones And how did you two practice the end stunt for Sister Mary Eunice?

L. Rabe Well, they let me do the whole thing. I was on wires and I actually got—my stunt double was someone I had worked with before and they all sort of they talked to me a couple weeks before shooting it and asked me what I thought; and I said let me do as much of it as I possibly can and they let me do the whole thing, the throw and the fall and all of it, so that was a lot of fun. I really like that kind of thing.

M. Jones Great, thanks so much.

L. Rabe Thank you.

Moderator And next we’ll go to the line of Karen Moul with Scifivision.com.

K. Moul Hello again.

L. Rabe Hello.

K. Moul I know you talked about the cremation being one of the most difficult things that you’ve done this season. What were some of the high points for you this season?

L. Rabe Oh gosh, well, everything else, everything else was the high point. It was one high point after another. I think I could never pick, but I had so much fun really my relationship with Jessica, I would say, with Sister Jude, I thought that all of the scenes were really an incredible thrill to play and to figure out and especially the ones where Eunice sort of comes out of, is sort of reached by Jessica for a moment and there are flashes of her still being inside there.

Because the truth is in all of it, I felt her there even when she was very sort of being completely overpowered and so those moments of release were really special to get to do and I have to say I also had a lot of fun. The murders were I don’t know if fun is the right word, but the murders were, it’s sort of a wild thrill to play to do things that are so—I’ve never, I’ve never had the opportunity to do such horrible, horrible things to people.

K. Moul And just quickly on a different note, what have been some of your favorite horror films and programs to watch?
L. Rabe Oh, my favorite, I think it’s Don’t Look Now and The Shining is also one—I’ve never really watched a television show, a horror television show with any kind of consistency, but I do love to be scared and I love there are some of those movies that it’s amazing to me how you watch them over and over and they’re still so terrifying every time.

K. Moul Even religious horror?

L. Rabe What’s that?

K. Moul Even like, you know, demon possession, religious horror kind of stuff?

L. Rabe What do you mean, is that something—

K. Moul Well, I can’t watch it at all, you’re the only religious horror type thing I’ve ever been able to watch.

L. Rabe I don’t know how to answer that question. I guess if you mean like—

K. Moul Some of us can’t take demons.

L. Rabe Oh demons, I guess, well, it just depends on the film I would say.

K. Moul Okay, great, thanks.

L. Rabe Thank you.

Moderator Next we’ll go to a follow-up with Earl Dittman with Wireless Digital.

E. Dittman Hello, Lily, I’m glad I get to talk to you again.

L. Rabe Hello, I’m happy to talk to you again.

E. Dittman Just referring to her question, I think she was saying about, well, before I go to that, you were talking about the Donald Sutherland film, right?

L. Rabe Yes.

E. Dittman Okay, yes, of course, what other one is there? So I’m sorry, anyway she was talking about, this is kind of personal question, are you Catholic yourself?

L. Rabe No, I am not.

E. Dittman Oh, okay, okay, because it brings up a whole lot of the Catholic thing and how the Catholic church works and stuff like that, I mean I’m a Catholic or a lapsed Catholic whatever you want to say. So I think that’s what brings more authenticity to it because the Catholic church is very much about demons and possession and all that kind of stuff or it used to be, so I think it brings kind of an authenticity to it. Did you study a lot about Catholicism or the whole demon possession all that stuff?

L. Rabe I did, yes, in part of sort of researching before and during that was definitely something that I did. I was very interested in learning about and there’s so much information out there and stuff like that.

E. Dittman Oh yes, go ahead.

L. Rabe Go ahead.

E. Dittman I was going to say earlier you had talked about, somebody had mentioned Ryan and I thought to me I was thinking purely as an actor or actress that the whole thing that he’s trying to come up with this repertory kind of deal where every season kind of using the same actors over and over, I think that would be, because very much it’s very much theatre like.

L. Rabe Yes, it’s like repertory theatre, yes, it’s terrific fun.

E. Dittman And did you find that particularly appealing and did he kind of use that as a way to kind of sweeten the deal?

L. Rabe Yes, it’s incredibly appealing because it sort of, it’s this wonderful opportunity to work with the same group of people, the same actors, the same crew, the same creators, I’m just saying creator or the same writers and creators and to be able to sort of have this home that you get to come back to, but then be playing a different character is really I have to say it’s kind of for me it’s just an actor’s dream come true; and that you can, there are people who go away for a season and come back, do a few episodes, do the full season. There’s so many ways for it to exist and it’s really a thrilling sort of company to be a part of and that is how Ryan thinks of it as sort of a like using the model of the rep theatre company. I think he’s such a genius to be doing that.

E. Dittman It’s an incredible idea. I think it’s maybe has been, I don’t know, but it’s an incredible idea to do and to me as a viewer if I was just looking as a viewer, I think that’s the most appealing to see Dylan come back, it’s just an incredible thing.

L. Rabe It’s incredible, yes, yes, yes. I certainly don’t know of anything that’s been done like it in television before Ryan seems to constantly be pioneering so many things.

E. Dittman Before I let you go, I have to talk to you about you and Jessica because to me a lot of people like to mention a lot of actresses as the greatest American actress alive, but I think Jessica is the greatest American actress alive.

L. Rabe She’s unbelievable.

E. Dittman She’s unbelievable and I was watching that whole the dance song routine and I just thought you know it just reminded me how great, she can do anything and get away with it and it’s effortless it looks like. What was it like working with her?

L. Rabe I had an amazing time. She’s an incredible actress. She’s got an unbelievably, an amazing work ethic. She’s generous. She’s present. She’s everything you could want in a team partner and also she’s a really great woman. She’s a lot of fun and I felt very close to her very quickly, very comfortable with her and safe and that’s always, especially when you’re doing difficult things, feeling safe with someone is what I have with Ryan and that’s what I have with some of the cast. And to have it with Jessica, especially with kind of what we had to go through together and put each other through was invaluable.

E. Dittman That’s fantastic, well, again, thank you so much for your time and best of luck and I hope Ryan has a good part for you next year.

L. Rabe Thank you so much, thank you.

E. Dittman Thanks a lot, appreciate it.

L. Rabe Bye.

Moderator And next we’ll go to the line of Jamie Steinberg with Starry Constellation.

J. Steinberg Hello, it’s such a pleasure to speak with you.

L. Rabe Lovely to speak to you as well.

J. Steinberg Is there any way you prepare for this season’s role?

L. Rabe Yes, a bit, I hope I’m not repeating myself, but the sort of most of the preparation before once Ryan, you know, I said yes to him before I knew who I was playing. He called me and I was doing a play in New York and he said can you come back this year and move out to LA for five months and I said yes. And then he said all right I’ll call you soon and tell you about her and then learning about Sister Mary Eunice and of course, learning about the institution and what her role there was and her relationship with Sister Jude and sort of learning about her history, which I know the audience doesn’t see it until sort of maybe halfway in.

But knowing that something, she’s had a sort of stunted something has been stunted stopped in her, so she hasn’t really totally developed into a woman. I think that so figuring out who that sort of innocent soul was, that pure girl and why she is the way she is, all that stuff was lots of time to sit in my apartment and worry and prepare and do all of those things.
J. Steinberg Okay, anything about your role then that you added that wasn’t scripted for you?

L. Rabe Oh gosh, I’m not sure how to answer that question. I think a lot of it was collaborative in the sense that yes, sometimes there’s a certain amount of freedom and so that there were things that I think would happen because the writers are writing the show as it’s not like the entire season is written. I do think the writers and Ryan were sort of, it was definitely a collaboration in a certain sense.

J. Steinberg Great, thank you.

L. Rabe Thank you.

Moderator And next we’ll go to the line of Terry Schwartz with Spin Off Online.

T. Schwartz Hello, Lily, thanks so much for talking with us today.

L. Rabe No problem I’m happy to.

T. Schwartz One of the things that I noticed this season is that you just seem to be having so much fun playing Sister Mary Eunice, especially once you went into like full devil mode; and there are some pretty touchy scenes in there and you raised the Monsignor and like all those other stuff, so is there ever a point where you’re like this is too far or were you just like give me more of this material or let me go to town?

L. Rabe Yes, I think with the show, you know if you’re going to do the show, you just sort of, you just kind of jump off the ledge and you don’t expect you’re going to have any parachute or anything opening. You just have to jump and know that that’s a part of the thrill of it and there will be somewhere soft to land, you’re not going to, and you’re not going to at the end of the day and because you’re in such good hands. But I think part of the thrill of being on that show is sort of just diving in completely, so no, I never, things would scare me or make me really nervous, but nothing ever felt like this is too far or this is something I don’t want to do. I never had that feeling about any of it.

T. Schwartz Sister Mary Eunice on the other hand was in a lot of different storylines this season, was there any one that was your favorite?

L. Rabe You know my storyline with Jessica was perhaps the most powerful to me because I think it’s sort of the most tragic in a way because it’s actually the one that involved the most love, even though there was a sort of, even though Jessica’s Jude is very cruel to Eunice in the beginning. I always believed that that cruelty was coming out of a place of love and a place of sort of seeing Mary Eunice as seeing her potential and knowing that she wasn’t living it.

And so in a way that that whole where we started and where we ended up, that to me is probably the one that was the most sort of powerful; but I have to say all of, you know, my relationship with James and with everyone, everyone I got to sort of work with. I even had a great side plot with Spivey. Mark Conseulos is so amazing and it was such an abundance of amazing actors that you get a chance to work with while you’re doing the show.

T. Schwartz All right, I echo every one else’s sentiments, too. I’m really hoping that you get to come back next season.

L. Rabe Oh, thank you, thank you.

Moderator And next we’ll go to the line of Daniel Johnson with Screen Invasion.
D. Johnson Hello, Lily, thanks for being here.

L. Rabe Hey, thank you.

D. Johnson Hey, great job this season. I kind of blanked out a bit when you talked about talking with James Cromwell about Shakespeare and stuff on set, it was kind of awesome. And I was just kind of wondering, I’ve loved James Cromwell since I was a kid. I watched Babe a million times, so I was just wondering kind of what your process together was. I think it’s a really interesting relationship and kind of what your relationship was on set and how you guys prepared and all that thing, it’s a very interesting relationship between those two characters.

L. Rabe Yes, we both love to talk about acting; we love to talk about theatre. We love to talk about—he’s a great storyteller, too, so I always loved when we had days on set together. I think it’s such a sort of specific and bizarre special tone that kind of love story and it’s a very strange thing to call it, but that is sort of how I felt about it even though it isn’t necessarily mutual or sort of straightforward. But it was definitely, I loved working with him and sort of it was great with the directors and with Ryan and the writers and James to sort of figure out what was happening with them. And there was so much heartache between them in different ways.

I mean they didn’t want the same thing, but I think that that sort of, but her loss of purity, what that purity meant to him and of course to her. I mean I think as she sort of having a first time experiences of what it is to feel powerful or sexual or free in a certain way. And then of course that gets totally out of control, but what is a person losing when that stuff kind of happens or what are you gaining and asking all those questions that were really fun to get to do that with someone like James.

D. Johnson Yes, cool. Okay, my other question is actors, you don’t always get to know everything that’s going on the show, or see the whole script or anything. I was kind of wondering or sometimes you shoot something and you don’t know how it’s going to come together. Was there anything this season that really has surprised you or threw you for a loop, and probably in a good way, but when you saw it kind of, finally the episode come together?

L. Rabe Well, there was a lot of, you know you know a certain amount of course in terms of like points of things that are going to happen to you; but there was a lot of mystery and a lot of sort of you have to be constantly taking a tremendous leap of faith and just sort of staying present in the moment of whatever the scene is, because you don’t know exactly you know where that turn is going to end up or what the next episode is going to bring. You know you have these sort of landmark things that you know about, but within the sort of nuance of the storylines. There was a certain amount of mystery.

I didn’t watch the show while it was airing because it was too hard to be shooting episode three or I mean the episode seven and watching episode three or however it worked out. My brain was getting really scrambled, but I had to wait till the season had wrapped because there is in the same way that the audience is being surprised, you know we were definitely getting our handful of surprises, too, that’s for sure.

D. Johnson Okay, cool. Well, thanks for speaking with us and I hope to see you next season as well.

L. Rabe Thank you so much.

Moderator Next we’ll go to the line of Kristyn Clarke with Pulp Culture Madness.

K. Clarke Hello again.

L. Rabe Hey.

K. Clarke So I’m curious is there anything, you know, maybe one thing in particular that you were surprised to learn about yourself as you kind of delve deeper and deeper into this character.

L. Rabe About myself, Lily Rabe, or about what happened to the character?

K. Clarke No, about yourself personally.

L. Rabe Oh, oh, yes, well, that always happens when you have a great job, you do have to confront constantly always parts of yourself that you may or may not want to know about or have anything to do with or spend any time with, so yes, that definitely happened. I will say one thing. I didn’t quite know just how much I was going to love singing and dancing in front of a camera. I knew I would like it a lot, but I didn’t know that I would think it was like the most fun I’ve ever had.

K. Clarke It was awesome. I certainly hope to see some more of that.

L. Rabe And I also loved I mean I knew I liked stunts, too, but I really, really like doing them, so I sure would love a job where I was on wires all the time. I know some actors don’t like them, but I don’t know. I think it’s a hell of a lot of fun.

K. Clarke Awesome, and you know what was it like at the Asylum itself can almost be looked at as a character on the show. What was the atmosphere like on set to work in an environment like that?

L. Rabe Right, it is sort of a dark, I know, you know it is a dark world to live in, but I think the thing that made it so, still so kind of wonderful and a place that I was excited to drive to work every morning and that was because of the people and the crew. It was a very close group of actors and the writers are very, it’s an amazing group of writers.

I think Ryan has a way of when he’s at the helm he’s one of those people who just creates a great work environment. I think it’s so much about that person. The leader really has to set the tone for something and make everyone feel safe and he does that in such an incredible way and so everyone, although we were maybe working crazy hours and shooting crazy things, it was always a really nice place to go to work.


And for me you know it was the first time I’d ever been, I’ve never done a show as a regular before and it reminded me a bit of doing a play in the sense that you go to the theatre every day and you have your dressing room. And you have the crew and the actors and so I loved that feeling of actually kind of having this family every day that was sort of new for me and very special.

K. Clarke That’s awesome. Was there anything that you guys did to break up the tension in between a scene that would be particularly intense?

L. Rabe Oh well, I mean you know Sara Paulson is one of my best friends and has been for years. We already have a bit of laughing problem together, so I would say that that happened a lot. There was often a lot of that and Zach was learning the banjo and I was learning the guitar, so there were also little musical breaks, although he’s much better at the banjo than I am at the guitar at this point.

K. Clarke That’s awesome, thank you so much.

L. Rabe Thank you.

Moderator Next we’ll go to the line of Juana Poareo with Yourentertainmentplanner.com.

J. Poareo Hello again.

L. Rabe Hello.

J. Poareo Hello. How you seen ….?

L. Rabe Sorry? ….

J. Poareo ….

L. Rabe I’m so sorry I’m having trouble hearing you on the line.

J. Poareo Can you hear me now?

L. Rabe I’m not able to hear your question. It’s staticy or something. I’m so sorry.

J. Poareo Okay, I’ll ask you a different question. I’ll ask you a different question. I was wondering because it’s your role, can you hear me now?

L. Rabe I can, yes.

J. Poareo Yes, okay, great, good, okay, because of your role as Sister Mary, have you found it so disturbing that, was there any moments where you had a hard time dealing with the characters because of the things that pyschologically happened as a role?

L. Rabe Is the question did I ever have times that it was hard to deal with the character because of the psychological heaviness of the role? Is that correct?

J. Poareo Yes, yes, yes.

L. Rabe Yes, but it sort of came with the territory in the sense that I think if you’re going to be; I feel that with all the great jobs or all the really, really great parts, you’re usually going to sort of dark and scary or painful places and that’s just part of it. Although it could be difficult in some way, it sort of comes with, it’s part of the job description I feel, so it’s nothing I would ever sort of want to say was a negative, even though sometimes it doesn’t feel great.

It’s sort of to me it’s still part of the job description of getting to play a wonderful role and having to go through things like that. So I’m always very grateful for that even if it means I’m going to go have to kind of collapse in my bed for a little while or whatever or whatever it means.

J. Poareo Yes. Okay, thank you for that.

R. Bibby Thank you. Lola, we’ll take the last question, please.

Moderator There is no one else in queue at this time.

R. Bibby Okay. All right, thank you, Lily, thank you journalists.

L. Rabe Thank you.

R. Bibby Guys be out on the lookout for the link of episode 12, which we hope to have early next week. The transcript from this call will be available one or two days following today, but the turnaround could be sooner. If so, I’ll get it out as quickly as I possibly can. Thank you guys and have a nice day.

L. Rabe Thank you all so very much.

R. Bibby Thank you, bye, Lily.

L. Rabe Bye, Roslyn, and bye, everyone.

Moderator Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude your conference for today. Thank you for your participation and for using AT&T Executive TeleConference. You may now disconnect.

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