The Importance of Dance in Birdie

I was really passionate about any nudity in the show, not feeling gratuitous but feeling natural and joyful. I felt like that there shouldn't be any kind of gaze on it and it should just be goofy and fun and celebratory. Emma did everything in that performance watching Birdie. She's a dreamer, she's a 24-year-old who is like so in the mythology of her own stories about herself rather than being grounded and engaged at all in the reality of life. We can almost see as she smokes a cigarette that she's going into like her cinematic world that it's funny for us because it's so dumb. The first episode lands characters very quickly in the first episode