Love the phone acting. It was so good to connect with Larissa again, and to have her take the upper hand. At the end of the call, I was still in it. She'd hung up and I was calling her name into the dead phone.

Alex's hand could be felt all over this shoot, but he used relatively few words. The atmosphere was controlled and efficient, but soft and open. It's no joke to coordinate a three-camera shoot, but the whole thing was so low key. Nothing got in the way. It seemed like we were shooting a lot of the time. Our cohesion as an ensemble for that day's scenes was 95% there when we arrived; the casting was that good. Very nice.

It's a very creepy website. I feel an arresting sense of altered reality by entering this zone. Very akin to the feeling on set for my day on Canary. Alex gave us some very cogent written information about our relationships, desires, and the situation and then cut us loose.

So much of what one does on camera tends to be abbreviated, chopped-up pieces of a script. Don't get me wrong; I love that way of working and its inherent challenges. But here in improv land (with very compelling and well-crafted givens), we got to stretch out. So fluid.

I heard about a prisoner who, when asked what he'd do when he got out, said, "Pet a dog and walk in a straight line until I get tired." That's what working on Canary felt like. Easy and natural and unusual.

It sure didn't hurt that the cast ruled. Larissa and I had an extremely intense time. Kerry, Jeff, and Johann were just right.