I learned two things today that I connect here: I won Best Supporting Actress, and Alan Arkin died.

I auditioned for Alan Arkin in the 1980s and learned a lifelong lesson on playing comedy.

Alan Arkin’s lesson was applied to portraying Alexa Wright, gun lobbyist, who never went anywhere without a gun to bolster her need to feel in control and powerful after a series of horrible personal events. Larry Daggett wrote Alexa as both the antagonist and the comic relief.