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Why Did The Residence's Edwina Findley Attend AA Meetings to Help Her Role?


Edwina Findley exclusively told Us Weekly about the amount of research that went into playing Sheila on 'The Residence'

During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Findley, 44, explained how she kept track of the show’s flashback scenes, alternative moments and different timelines for her character, Sheila. Inspired by The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower, the eight-part Netflix series premiered in March and followed renowned detective Cordelia Cupp ( Uzo Aduba) as she was tasked with finding out who was responsible for the Chief Usher A.B. “Suddenly to get this script from Shondaland set around the White House and depicting very real characters — maids and butlers and housekeepers and ushers and florists — where it wasn’t really about the president, it was about all these regular people.

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