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Do you prefer mystery or certainty?

Ooh, that's a good one.

I feel like probably certainty is the thing that is maybe, quote, unquote, better for me.

But I feel like most of the choices that I've made in life would show that I believe in mystery.

I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard, the game where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest answers questions about their life.

Questions pulled from a deck of cards.

They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one question back on me.

My guest this week is actor Julian Nicholson.

It doesn't always have to be like flowers and roses and rainbows.

It's just like, let's just take each moment and be more chill.

Julia Nicholson has been busy breaking our hearts over the last few years. She was totally

captivating in the film Janet Planet as a mother dealing with unmet expectations about her life.

And she won an Emmy for playing Kate Winslet's best friend in Mayor of Easttown. She's so good in these

dramatic roles, it's easy to forget that Julianne Nicholson is also funny.

If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of her prolific list of credits,

you'll see that she had a memorable 13-episode arc as Jenny Shaw on the beloved TV show,

Ali McBeal.

She played this endearingly dorky lawyer, and it was there that people first got a look at her chemistry with actor James Marston, who was equally nerdy and charming on that show.

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