RACHAEL LEIGH COOK: Oh, yeah. I auditioned for this, the first time, in early September or mid-August of 2010, and Eric [McCormack] wasn’t attached yet. They were still negotiating and trying to figure it out. I didn’t know who they were going to cast or what was going on there. They were trying to pick the perfect male lead, out of many capable male actors in the city. When they picked Eric, they had to do his deal, so I didn’t know I had the part until mid-November. I came back to L.A. from a TV movie that I was working on, and then I went to Toronto to test with Eric. Ultimately, I got the part. And then, we shot the pilot in December of 2010 and got the pick-up in March of 2011. They told us that we were going to shoot in August, September, October and November of 2011. TNT likes to launch shows in the summer, so here we are, a year and a half later.
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