How was it working with Gabriel Byrne?
Everyone on set was madly in love with him. He’s just that guy. He’s funny and beautiful and smart and vulnerable and he’s a great listener. He’s a fantastic guy. I admire him so much and I found him mesmerizing on screen — and obviously when you’re sitting across, talking to him, that’s what you’re getting. You’re getting that guy. The climax of your storyline is this quiet realization. Mia asks Paul when he has ever seen her capable of emotional intimacy, and he says, “Right now.” It’s such beautiful writing. And the other thing about that storyline that works so well for it is that usually in any kind of steamy, romantic thing, you know they’re going to get together in the end. You know he’s going to kiss her. And in this case they can’t. But, oh my God, are they going to? Is she going to jump on him? And if you watched the first season, he did cross the line, so there was that thing hanging over all of these episodes. Obviously she was in love with him in some way, or thought she w
