Known for both comedic and dramatic roles, Rose Byrne has already won a Golden Globe for

Best Actress this award season for the psychological drama, If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You.

She's been acting professionally for more than 30 years, and now she's up for her first Oscar.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown recently joined her in New York for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

It's a portrait of a woman coming undone. Under so much pressure, it's breaking her. In the film,

If I Had Legs I Kick You, Rose Byrne plays Linda, with a severely ill daughter hooked up to a feeding

tube, an often absent second-guessing husband.

Things are so bad, the roof of her home literally collapses.

The therapist herself, she's in therapy.

Conan O'Brien, in a dramatic turn, plays her unhelpful therapist.

And she's begging someone, anyone, to tell her what to do.

But I'm asking you a thing, an actual thing, a problem to fix, that I need help with this.

Am I supposed to just sit around and watch her fail and this is just going to go on forever?

What do I do? Okay. That means there's no drinking. There's no drugs. There's no...

Are you listening to me? Can you hear me?

What this woman is going... What your character is going through can be hard to watch.

You're laughing now, but was it hard to play?

There's an element of just like, of trying something, being on a dangerous tightrope every day.

She's unraveling, but how the unraveling looks and at which part.

So she's trying to keep it together and when she really falls apart.

So it was challenging.

Yeah, I just didn't want to

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