(via Director Thom Fitzgerald on how the pain of loss fueled the comedy of ‘Stage Mother’ / Queerty)

You also got Lucy Liu to play a supporting comic role. She’s not someone known for comedy, either. How did you seduce her?

Lucy and I did a film together in 2005 called 3 Needles. She played a Chinese blood smuggler—it’s one of those darker movies you referred to. But we also forged a great friendship. So I know her to be one of the funniest people that I’ve ever encountered. She’s so sharp and witty and can be so bubbly. That’s not, as you point out, the kind of role she’s known for: doctors, detectives, lawyers. I knew she’d make a great ditzy blond.

She’s very fun.

And she was very gracious. She did this while she was shooting Elementary. She’d do that all week and come up to Canada on weekends.

Wow. That’s amazing. It also speaks well of you.

Thom Fitzgerald - Beefcake, 1998.