The Penguin star Cristin Milioti watched movies where actors “swing for the fences” for “courage” when preparing to play Sofia Falcone

The Penguin star Cristin Milioti had an unconventional way of preparing to play mob daughter Sofia Falcone.

“When we started, I tried to stay away from everything. Deidre (O’Connell), when we first began, we were so nervous because it’s a high-pressure environment. They’re big sets. It’s big. You’re shooting really fast. She he told me about this thing that she does where she watches performances for courage. And I started to do that as well,” Milioti said during a New York Comic Con roundtable attended by GamesRadar+. “So not necessarily performances that had anything to do with Sofia, but just wanting to see other actors, or directors or writers, swing for the fences. Just anything that felt like encouragement, but I tried to stay away from anything that was of this world, if that makes sense.”