Whats it like working with Debra [Messing]?
HB: I, from the bottom of my heart, as honest as I can be, I adore her! I have never had such a good time and every single day, I am more impressed than the previous day. She is, you know, considered, I guess, the Lucille Ball of her generation. But what people have yet to really give her credit for, that I know of, is that on a dime she can hit these dramatic beats so brilliantly, with such pathos. You know, it’s very rare to find someone, a woman who can be funny, or anybody who could be funny, but to be able to play both sides of the coin is a very rare gift and she’s phenomenal! Yeah, it’s just been a blast. You know, I’ve never done a TV series before and I have been directing and so I had taken—sort of, when I started directing, I kind of quit acting for about seven or eight years. And then I directed a movie that came out earlier this year and then it was in India and it was, like, “Okay, what am I going to do next?†And this kind of presented itself to me so I was a bit ru
