That beautiful moment of finding out that I got the lead role in How to Get Away . . . was mixed with a fucked-up moment of feeling that I didn’t deserve it. Until I remembered the teachings of Sanford Meisner, who said the most important question an actor can ask is “Why?” I asked myself: Why can’t I be sexualized? Why can’t I be vulnerable? Why can’t I have a husband and a boyfriend? Why can’t I be a leading lady? As I continued to ask myself the question Why? I reached a dead end that asked me Why not?
