“I am traumatized from trying to play this traumatized person.”
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I’ve never been on a set like this.
Mary Lynn Rajskub playing Chloe on ‘24.'.Everett Collection
I entered the show and it was already massively popular, so it was scary."
Rajskub was also reeling from another experience that tainted the idea of her becoming a dramatic actress.
“I tried to not go on the [24] audition.
I told my agent, I said I had a really badCSIaudition.
I had to go in for like a rape victim,” the comedian remembers.
Unfortunately, Rajskub just couldn’t find the right character beats, and the audition went south.
“It was so serious and I think they were like what is she doing?
Like I didn’t know how to grasp things that were that heavy.”
The actress jokingly concluded, “This is not my thing.
Like I am traumatized from trying to play this traumatized person.
It just is busted for me.”
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