



She’s talking about her imminent jump from the page to the screen. Now my entire day is scheduled, so I've been sort of reverse engineering my panic attacks where I'm like trying to schedule them, you know, in between, so it's been really, I mean, it's been great in the sense that I have a team of really great people working with me. I like talking to people, I’m not agoraphobic exactly, but I am a little bit to the extent that knowing I have to be somewhere paralyzes me for the day. “It’s hard for me because I have crippling, major anxiety. Unlike her writing-concise, declarative-her spoken words tumble out in gushing run-on sentences. Lisa Taddeo laughs often as she speaks, gesticulating and brushing her thick, raven-colored hair from her face which is framed via Zoom against a backdrop so white and sterile that it has the look of a rubber-room in a mental asylum. Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally grateful, I’m totally excited about all of the opportunities, it’s just-personality-wise-I’d rather be in a hole.” “I signed up to be a writer, you know? Like a mole in a hole-I like being in total darkness-and now I’m doing this TV show stuff and it’s lots of meetings, lots of not-writing.
