For a comedic actress, the HBO series “is a dream show, obviously,” Jean Villepique says. She recurred as a New York Times reporter in the White House press corps; as such, she often shared scenes with fellow Chicagoan Matt Walsh, who plays sometime press secretary Mike McLintock.

She recalls getting to shoot a scene with him — alas, it was cut from the episode — and thinking, “He could improvise all day long,” she says. “I felt like I was getting to play basketball with Michael Jordan or something… I think I floated home, like, ‘I got to do that. I got to play.'”

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