Hey, everyone. Today's guest is the amazing Kate Mara. You know her from House of Cards,

American Horror Story, The Martian, and her new FX show, A Teacher. Kate and I were both

in Brookbeck Mountain, and it was kind of a relief to find out that she was just as nervous as I was.

After talking with Kate, I'm joined again by dating expert coach, matchmaker, and one of my favorite

people, April Byer. April is the founder of Level Connections and has over 20 years of experience

helping people make meaningful connections and find love. Once again, thank you all for your

kind reviews and comments. We really want to hear from you, so please reach out. Just go to

unqualified.com and look for the link. Okay, now here's Kate.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to unqualified with your host,

Unafair.

Kate, I can't thank you enough for doing this. I was so excited to have you on. It's been ages since

I've seen you. How are you? I feel like it's been like 15 years or something. You're so sweet to

take the time to do this. As a fellow mom, I would be like, I can't fucking take an hour off.

Well, they're outside playing right now because it's not too cold. It's an escape.

Good, good, good. I hope it will be fun. Is there a possible summation that you can give us

of the last six months? You know, I think probably like a lot of people and maybe a lot of people

with kids. I feel like the beginning of the lockdown quarantine was definitely scary, but we sort

of felt like, oh, we can do this and we're going to like thrive. We're going to be like amazing at

staying home. I know. So you get to spend time together as actors, you know, someone's always gone.

And we had a one year old. So we were like, this is a really bonding thing. My husband, Jamie,

he all of a sudden started cooking every night because he was terrified to order any food. Sure,

yeah. You know, because of the virus. And I can't cook to save my life. So it actually was like

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