Margo Martindale: "I love television because it’s the most alive, because you don’t know how it’s going to end"

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The Emmy-winning Americans star describes the difference between working in the movies, television and the stage: "It’s a living thing," she says of TV. "Sometimes the writers are watching you to see how things will unfold. Sometimes the writers have written it, and you come to it, and they have to change their way of going because of what you’ve done. You inspire them, and they inspire you. In movies, they’re written. It’s done. In plays, it’s a beginning, a middle, and an end. That’s the difference. I love all of them. Everything comes from the same place, but in plays you have to transmit it in a different way."