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Mary Lynn Rajskub – Actress, 24 Live Another Day

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                          You’ve already talked a little bit about how this incarnation of Chloe was developed, and I was just wondering – there is a range of acting processes that goes from Laurence Olivier’s it’s all just pretend to Stanislavski's method, and I was just wondering where does your style, your process fit between those two extremes, and how did that play a part in the development of the new Chloe? Mary Lynn This is one of those questions that, as an actor, I feel like diving in and talking about it for 45 minutes, but how to encapsulate that – I mean, I have a comedy background.  So my approach is very instinctual, and I like to feel it out, you know, in the moment, especially in rehearsal.  I’m comfortable with things happening really quickly, and kind of adding that to stuff that I’ve done alone going over scripts and then putting that altogether in the moments. Certainly, when Chloe first came – when I first played the character.   I think I brought a lo