did you meet with linda tripp before she passed away a couple months ago? situation. it was apparently not from covid-19. she died, and i never met her. just like i never met marsha until we were basically finished shooting it. it can get complicated. when you're worried about, you know. >> jimmy: interesting. >> i didn't meet linda, i don't know if she would have been open to doing anything like that. but i got as many text messages as if i'd died, like she was my best friend, i'm so sorry to hear about linda, i'm really sorry to hear about it, too. i didn't know her. it was weird, because i had been spending so much time reading all these books and working with a dialect coach. so i was immersed in this, it was a very wild thing and really did make me sad. >> jimmy: that's when you know you're good actor, when you get condolences for someone you haven't even played yet. >> i was like, wow. >> jimmy: this character in "mrs. america" is not a real person, right? is it an amalgamation? >> i guess people call her the composite person. which i find really irk