 you'll get described sometimes and write up so say she's a bankable actress and I was just curious what does that mean and then what does that do for your career right I mean right I had been acting you know I mean so my very first things were on film and television and then I a couple years later I started doing stage right now I had done a million plays and and phenomenal plays with unbelievable yeah a lot of really great plays wasn't until Sex and the City where I believe they would sort of describe you no totally so when I was yeah I mean very early on in Sex and the City I got offered it you know a lead in an independent film that a friend of mine had written but still that they've never would have been able to offer it to me you know and I always remember I did this one you know TV movie that I was with Scott Bakula and I and Eva Marie Saint that I just totally loved and it was about a woman in Appalachia and the Depression and stuff now my even though I'm from New York and my parents are from Chicago and Texas respectively my grandmother is from Appalachia you know she's from the Missouri Ozarks and so I feel like I really could totally get that character but I said to the and I was like it's a very juicy part you know she's dying of tuberculosis she's got like eight kids I mean it was great and and but I said to the director how did you ever think of me for this because I know I have all this Ozark in my background but how would you ever know that you know why did you cast me he said oh I've been a fan of yours for years and I would have cast you in a million projects that I've done but when the time came to to cast this project I received for this particular role that you're doing the wife I received a list of women who had the enough TV queue which means enough people out watching television know who you are and might be think to tune in if you were in something and he said you know I get those lists for everything that I cast but you had never been on the list before I would have cast you right away but you would never on the list but all of a sudden there you were so I saw your name I was like don't need to go any farther great so that's like a very you know focused view of like what sex in the city did for me yeah