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When asked about her technical skills, she added: I do have some experience with emails.
How did you come up with the idea to have Hillary Clinton appear on the show?
She said, You know who would be a great secretary?
And I thought,Oh, thats a genius idea.
Then we started a campaign.
I have good friends who work very closely with her.
I ran one of her PACs during the 2016 campaign.
So we reached out and we sent her the script.
It had to go through many hands.
It was filmed actually two weeks later, in early August.
So you didnt have a live audience for her cameo?No, we had a closed set.
Just the cast, the writers, and essential crew.
I am shocked that it did not leak out.
We never included the scene in any cuts that we sent out and certainly not any screeners.
These days, everything leaks so Im really still surprised.
You said that the script for that scene went through several hands.
Do you mean on your side, Hillary Clintons side, or both?On her side.
She really liked it.
I wondered if she was going to go for the emails reference.
Thats what I was going to ask you.Yeah, thats who she is.
Shes totally up for making fun of herself.
So that was delightful that she didnt ask for that to be removed.
What was it like having her on set?Oh, it was fabulous.
And she was happy to pose for photographs with anybody who wanted one.
Then, she was taking some pictures herself of the script, the elevators.
She was just having a good time.
You know, first takes are always a little wobbly, mostly from Candices side.
She didnt have her lines as down cold as Hillary did.
But it was fun.
It was a typical number of takes, not any more or less.
You mentioned this was Candices idea.
Did she have any role in scripting what Hillary would say?No, not at all.
She just threw out the idea and I ran with it.
It was gasps and applause and how did you pull that off?
My best friend said, Why didnt you tell me?
I said, I couldnt tell you.
Even the guy who cuts my hair who occasionally does Hillary was, like, shocked.
How did you not tell me this?
I said, We couldnt tell anybody.
We couldnt risk it.
Murphys secretaries were a big part of the original show.
Im assuming this isnt the only time well see a secretary apply for a job.
Will we see more high-profile cameos like Hillary Clinton in future episodes?Yeah, were working on it.
And were working on some high-profile people.
We have a bunch of things in the works right now.
But of course, Im not going to tell you.
Can you talk about that?Well, we didnt expect that to be our lead-in.
Even more than ever because of the hearings, we felt like we wanted to take advantage of that.
