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Is there anything in your life that has felt predestined?

Not particularly.

Maybe the closest thing I can think of,

but I don't even know if they necessarily think it's predestined,

is motherhood.

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 and to flip one question back on me. I do believe heaven is

closer than we think. I think it's right there just out of reach. And they get to

see everything that we're doing and they don't miss a birthday, a Christmas, a graduation, a birth.

My guest this week is Uzo Aduba. And it made me think, well, maybe that's where the expression,

best of both worlds, comes from.

Uzo Aduba very nearly wasn't an actor.

She wasn't getting traction in auditions, so she convinced herself she should just give it all up and go to law school.

The same exact day she made that decision, she came home to a message saying that she had landed the part of Suzanne on the hit show Orange is the New Black.

Honestly, I'm pretty sure Uzo would have been a damn good lawyer.

There's this sense of authority and competence under so many of her performances.

Whether playing Shirley Chisholm in Mrs. America or the therapist Brooke Taylor in the show In Treatment. Now, Uzo is working with Shonda Rhymes in her latest show

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