it's just so extreme the way our lives are organized, you know, because of our business.

You know, then I have these swathes of time where I am only available, which is great.

And I just try to bank the hours.

Yeah.

You binge your kids.

I binge.

That's right.

Yeah, me too.

Just looking at photos of them on my phone, you know, on set.

It's like mother porn. Yes, totally.

Totally. Welcome to this week's episode of the Best People podcast. This week's guest is someone

I've admired from afar for many, many, many, many, many years. She's brilliant. She's an iconic actor. She encapsulates

what it means to be driven and purposeful and carry your burdens lightly in service of something

larger than oneself and the role she plays. And then I get to meet her. And I am one of those people who

never wants to meet her heroes, but in real life, she's even better. So without any further ado,

this week's best person is Claire Dane. Thank you. Oh, thank you so much. This is so nice to

talk to you. Well, I never want to meet anyone I admire, especially Carrie Matheson,

because I make Carrie Mathism references all the time on my show, and it's a pleasure to know

you just a little bit, and to see you in The Beast in Me is like, how do you keep doing this? So I guess my first question for you is, what is your well that you draw on to be so powerful and so vulnerable at the same time for all of us?

It's funny, Matthew and I were shooting that scene where the highest floor of his latest project, yeah. And my parents happened to be coming into town.

This time last year, it must have been for Thanksgiving or something. And I was like, they should just come to set. That's so cool. It's like they're like five minutes away. And so they came to set and this was a kind of, you know, a sweet surprise.

And they were at Video Village watching the scene.

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