because of this, because I thought I wouldn't like her very much in real life but I wrote her as best I could and tried to make her as nice as I could and tried to sort of write in the subtext in everything she says to Fred with like I won't speak to you, I won't see you, I won't marry you until you reform, I tried, I tried to write a kind of subtext like underneath she's saying I love you, I love you know just try to get you act straight and I'll do anything um, and er, and they just, they just cast an actress, young actress, it was almost her first job, who, who's just so lovely, all, all the problems disappear, you don't think she's a goody, goody at all you just think she, what a lovely person you know, I hope it all goes right for her so that was, that was really you know bliss scene that.

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