“At first of each season we might spend per week in Washington, D.C., and this unbelievable parade of specialists would come by way of from the political world and international coverage and journalists and generals and ambassadors,” Cahn defined to Tudum.
“And when the primary [ambassador] got here in and sat down and talked to us, she simply blew my thoughts. She appeared so well mannered and unassuming, and in the event you had informed me she was a librarian, I’d’ve believed you. After which she begins speaking about what her profession has appeared like and it is simply breathtaking. The tales are breathtaking and really action-packed and really Carrie Mathison, and no person is aware of about them. These jobs, when carried out proper, are fully invisible.”
“And all we ever hear about it’s like, ‘Oh, ambassadors, they go and so they drink champagne in fancy locations,’ and it is a lot that is hidden. And never essentially hidden, however has not earlier than been very a lot of curiosity within the public. And I simply felt like this girl is a superhero in a pantsuit. She’s operating round saving the world and dodging bullets and doing all of it with a china teacup in her hand. And I simply did not see it coming. And I assumed, ‘Properly, that is a chance.'”