Laura. Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm great. I thank you so much for your time a couple of days from such a big huge day that the excitement is sort of you can actually feel it. It's pretty crazy. I haven't felt this way. I don't think people have felt this way about the finale of a show since like the end of lost maybe that was the last time. Yeah. I know what food and man. The one thing and I have to get this out of the way. The one thing that everyone wants

to know that I actually have to ask about the finale is does Todd have any chance with Lydia romantically? That's what everyone needs to know. What does he? What do you think?

There is creepy fixation of her just seems to be taking some interesting developments along the way and there might be another little twist in turn there in the next one. Yeah.

I was hoping there'd be some sort of Johnny loves Chachi type spin off with you to your like the wacky couple where he's sort of a Nazi and your drug distributor and everyone laughs.

You know 15 times to show itself. Yeah. I like it. That needs to be made. We're going to do it. Yeah. I think so. So when you're in a show that is that dominates pop culture the way that this is. I imagine when people see you, there's sort of a confusion a lot about, you know, who you are and who that character is. Have you run into people sort of seeing you and thinking that you're Lydia?

I haven't actually encountered that only one time when this guy visited the city and he was quite fanatical. I think he saw I was maybe 60% Lydia. But other than that, the people that have come up to me have been quite clear, you know, you're an actor and you're on baking bad and that is cool.

And, you know, luckily, I haven't had that confusion which could be kind of scary because I imagine they wouldn't really like me. It was me that they felt with.

Yeah. Well, your character in a show full of very flawed people and a lot of bad people, your seems. It's funny to say this, but seems especially selfish and in a bad and an understated way, but still very bad when you're when you're presented.

I mean, there's a lot of wonky moral compasses on the show, but I mean, Lydia to talk at all is extremely self-righteous and irritating as well. And that's just unforgivable, you know.

Well, when you have everything else, take yourself far too seriously.

Yeah. Yeah. It's one thing to be a murderer, but it's another thing to be annoying. Yeah.

I mean, come on. Well, when you're presented with playing someone that is that inherently bad, where does that come from? Do you sort of find a part of you that that is her or where do you channel that person from?

Definitely. I mean, I know that I am capable of hideous deeds and I have. I mean, I've been aware of horrible thoughts. Of course, my mind and, you know, obviously as a lawyer, I would never carry these thoughts out, but I'm aware that inside of human beings, we have the potential for incredibly disgusting hideous behavior.

And hopefully, we've never acted on some people do. And yeah, I just, like, I take all my anger and all my hate and all my hideous, secret thoughts and just bundle them up and there's Lydia.

Do you have to create when you're, again, when you're coming up with a character like this, do you create a backstory in your mind about her past and who she is to sort of to sort of, I guess, come, come up with a complete idea of who you're playing.

Yeah, I do, I do like to do that. And then I get that. And each episode I go, I had to sort of reject my, my story that I'd invented because they kept surprising me, the writers of making that surprise me with the script. And I had to read it and go, oh, that's no, that can't be then what I saw. And then with this new season, it blew me way further. And I thought, wow, I mean, there's certain things that have stayed the same.

Like I do feel that Lydia was certainly brought up in a in a group home and had a very unhappy and uncertain childhood and was abandoned, you know, as a kid and stuff. And, you know, that was the start of her, you know, when there's an alienation and that's, you know, one reason why she's ended up who she is.

But yeah, all the other things kept changing because as the character kept changing and becoming more and more dirty and who she is being somebody who's very particular about no calorie sweetness in one over the other.

I did try stevia, which is very inferior at least in its flavor to splendor. So unless she's going for the natural angle, I'm not sure why she makes that selection.

I know, you know, I did see it in a shot. And I think it was trade or do I think I saw it and oh my god, it's really real and there it is.

And I would go into it, but it was a big, big box. I don't want to carry it. But yeah, I admire that you try to do it. So it doesn't taste as much does it?

No, well, it's, it's, you know, there are a lot of no calorie sweeteners, but this one apparently is directly from a plant. So it is natural as opposed to splendor, which isn't, but it isn't as the taste. I don't think is as good. So yeah, I did, I'm a weirdo. So I did try it.

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