I think it helps the writers, it helps the actors, and it helps you have this understanding of what the story is they’re telling from everyone’s point of view instead of just your own.“Billions” also stars David Costabile, Asia Kate Dillon, Condola Rashad, Jeffrey DeMunn, Sakina Jaffrey and Daniel Breaker. So there’s a real understanding of what you’re getting into before you start filming, and that is few and far between in television. This is with every single actor, and what happens is that you get enveloped into this story, because it’s one thing to read a script, it’s another thing to hear it read by the actors who play those parts. We actually used to do it on ER, but only with the main characters. And they make it very easy, they serve us lunch, and we sit down for an hour and we read it out loud, and that is really rare. What’s really fun, and I’m so grateful that they respect the acting and writing process enough to make every single person, no matter how big or small their part is, we all go in for a table read before the episode starts. But my character stands a little bit aside from that kind of dialogue because it’s not her world. There’s definitely some of that in there, and you can’t help but sort of jump on that wagon with everyone else, because that’s also sort of the charm of the show. But, jumping in as a different character from the rest of the group, they’re very conscious of me not speaking like everyone else, in that same sort of quipped, quick tone. I watch the show and sometimes I have to see it again because I don’t understand all of the terminology in the finance world. I think that’s probably just as hard as medical dialogue or lawyer dialogue. Well, I can tell you that I’m really grateful that I don’t have to do any of the financial dialogue. It’s a very different beast and I’m really enjoying myself. So it feels really good to always feel fresh to start the day, not just feel exhausted when I begin a fourteen-hour day. And I never knew that you could actually have a life and work, that just wasn’t part of my dialogue for seven years. Being able to say, “Oh, great, I work Tuesday and Wednesday and maybe in one scene on Friday,” I can plan my kid’s dentist appointment, I can go out to dinner with my friends - I have a life. Now, going in, I don’t know how I did it. Because the first two seasons we did 23 episodes per year and then the next five seasons we did 22 episodes, so having been the star of a show for 156 episodes, plus having a little baby at the time, so when I’d get home I never just relaxed, I wanted to be a mom and a wife, and all of that pressure that I put on myself. When I did The Good Wife, I really didn’t realize how exhausted I was, because I didn’t have the time or the luxury of time to allow myself that feeling until it ended - and then I just collapsed. And all of my scenes were with Paul Giamatti, someone I’ve been dying to work with since I saw him in Sideways, so I was thrilled. 1 bestseller a few months in a row and changed peoples’ lives, so she’s a little bit of a hotshot in her field. I play a sociology professor at Yale who has written this one book that was a New York Times No. I said, “Great, I can give you like four episodes, and let’s see where we go from there.” So it was one of those where just timing worked out and the character was great. Then, finally this year they brought me in and said, “We have a great character for you,” and they sat me down and explained who this woman was, and I loved it, and I happened to be free. JULIANNA MARGULIES: I’d always been a fan of the show, and Brian and David had brought me into their office a couple of years ago right after The Good Wife ended and said, “We’re dying to get you on the show.” But I had a job and it didn’t work out, and then the next year they tried but then I was going to do Hot Zone.
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