Every week, I see more and more people screaming about it.
[Laughs] It’s really, really, really cool.
I’m curious about why you were drawn to a medical drama.
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Did it have more to do with this show, in particular, having appeal?
When I read the breakdown for this, I immediately thought I wanted to do a version of it.
Its my first love.
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It’s not like we’re getting some big infodump right at the beginning.
Did you have a similar experience with Cassie?
DOURIF: In fact, I got that backstorywithTaylor.
We were brought in in groups of two, so me and her got it together.
I was like, Oh, that’s why you picked me!
I haven’t had that experience before.
DOURIF: Then, right at the end of that, is when the mass casualty happens, right?
You just want to walk away, but you might’t.
And then to have it unfurl in my workplace,the feeling that I was experimenting with was embarrassment.
I thought Rob Heaps was wonderful and hilarious in it.
Me and him actually ended up becoming friends.
I really like the guy as a person.
So, we had a little bit of chemistry, but ultimately frustration and humiliation.
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So, it was knowing that.
[She’s] from a different culture.
I’m pretty close to Gen X, [and] I think we were actually just raised differently.
I was a latchkey kid, and I think that’s very rare these days.
He’s a bit critical in thinking that she might have overreached in contacting the police.
Even if he’s not ultimately responsible, do you think she feels that she handled it correctly?
DOURIF: I don’t know if she does.
The stakes are really high.
ButI don’t think that she ended up really convinced or certain that she made the right choice.
It’s doing your best.
I think she knows that she did her best.
So, I look at it as McKay doing her best.
Whose idea was it to have him on the show?
DOURIF: I don’t know whose idea it was.
So, my suspicion is Noah Wyle.
It was really tender and special.
It seemed like you had fun on set with him for a day, getting to hang out.
DOURIF: Two days!
Two days, and we got dinner.
We’ve been on set before.The last time I was physically playing him, with the same face.
So, this was different, but really special.
I’m incredibly lucky to have a dad [whos invested] and I like hanging out with.
Not everybody gets that.
What can you tease, in terms of how any resolution will play out in the finale?
I thought it was just so impressive.
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m excited to.
But the script was wildly good.
I can tease that there’s a lot of humiliation.There’s a lot of humiliation andsomeamount of resolve.
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