Harden entered the Aaron Sorkin drama "The Newsroom" in Season 2 as Rebecca Halliday, a no-nonsense lawyer for the cable network that employed Jeff Daniels’ Will McAvoy.

“Aaron wrote this incredible beginning for this character, and I remember Jeff saying, ‘You want to know the secret to Aaron? Be off-book” — aka have your lines completely memorized — “for rehearsal.’ So I go into first rehearsal. I was off book. And I just remember Aaron looking over at Jeff and nodding, like, ‘We’ll keep her.'”

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