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A high point for Hartley?

The bottoming-out of Kevin Pearson.

“Hes thinking hes literally lost his father the only thing he has.

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That might have been one of the harder moments I had during the whole season,” he says.

But at the same time I didnt feel like there was any performance in there.

“And after fighting, we realized this might be the thing that we have to do.

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We were just allowed to just find this thing.

I loved that I had just injured my eye,” she remembers.

Theres a lot of purple eye shadow to sort of balance it all out….

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It was just one of those multi-layered episodes.

That was the scene that Lyric auditioned for the show with, and she was spectacular, says Brown.

But she took it to another level when we were shooting.

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You rarely come across a young performer with that much soul.

“Its one thing to have a ‘monologue’ when youre talking to another character.

Its another thing when youre actually talking to yourself.

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Kevin bared his soul to the only person who could hear him, and it was magnificent!”

Getting a chance to work with Dan Lauria again," he says.

“I could feel how visceral the reaction was going to be for the audience,” he says.

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