“She was right in her wheelhouse,” Burrows told me. “That’s a character she knows somewhere in her past or present.” (Burrows plays himself in “The Comeback,” an industry sage who gives Valerie advice that she’s too self-involved to hear.) When all six leads had been cast, Burrows flew the actors to Las Vegas for some bonding; he handed them gambling money and said, “This is your last shot at anonymity.”
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