ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You were really the center of the storm this season.
And I know you hadyour own personal breast cancer scare and Jason Katims wife is a survivor.
What surprised you about how the whole story line was approached?
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POTTER: You know, I feel like we didnt talk about it too much.
I dont think I talked to Kathy maybe just once about it.
We just came in every day and tackled the scenes and let it happen naturally.
Im alwayson ittoo much.
We just sort of let things happen as we went along.
And for me, it was the best way to approach it.
What was one of the most difficult steps along this journey?
I had a lot of guilt that I was able to come home and leave it at the door.
That was difficult at first, and then it became really uplifting.
So Im glad were done with that part of the show.
I was a little tired at the end, but it was more mental for me.
I felt more mentally unstable than I did physically.
And I felt like everybody identified with her because of all the different emotions she was going through.
She still wanted all these things to be normal, but clearly they werent because of the disease.
It was that sort of internal struggle with herself that I thought was interesting.
She was battling with herself and then putting on a front for everyone else even her mom.
She didnt come to visit, and that affected her.
Im glad you brought up that episode with her mom.
I was dehydrated throughout the entire season from crying, but that one hit hard.
I was like, Are you kidding me right now?
Shes not going to come because somebody has a kidney infection or a bladder infection?
I dont know if that was in the episode, but it was something like that.
I havent seen all of them yet; Im still catching up.
I just thought, This is so interesting.
Her moms not even coming to visit her.
It became clear why they have this incredibly close relationship.
Yeah, I remember thinking that too.
And this is sort of part of what I wrote for her in my head.
This is part of the reason she is so attached to them.
Im glad that came across because she doesnt really have a family.
There are mentions of her dad in previous episodes and how her dad was nothing like Adam.
I find it interesting how you say you havent watched all the episodes.
Yes, I did see that episode.
I saw the episode a few weeks ago.
I had to ask you about that hospital scene.
How do you even prepare for filming that video?
But as far as preparing, I didnt.
I have to do this at the crack of dawn tomorrow.
It was first up, and I was like, Oh, crap.
And normally Id be in a tizzy, but it is what it is.
I just had to let it go.
And the first two takes, I was like, I cant breathe.
I cant do this.
Because I love those kids so much in real life and my own kids.
That was one of my favorite, favorite, favorite scenes.
Did that video actually play when Peter Krause was sitting by the hospital bed?
[Laughs] Yes it was.
I was trying not to cry.
So thankfully the camera was nowhere near me.
We were all kind of crying in that scene.
No, I didnt see it at all.
The grips and everyone we were all crying.
It was interesting and cathartic.
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