‘The Bold Type’ star Melora Hardin dishes on directing debut

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Joanna Coles, who’s an executive producer on the show.“I’m not playing Joanna, I’m playing Jaqueline,” says Hardin. “But there are many things about Joanna’s personality that I do remember and think about when I’m making choices for Jaqueline.

Sometimes I’ll even call Joanna and say, ‘How would you handle this?’ if I know there’s a certain storyline coming up. And just in my personal life, I’m playing the boss at Scarlet in ‘The Bold Type,’ and [Joanna Coles] actually is my boss — being that she is an exec producer on the show — and she also has become a friend.

That’s an interesting and wonderful dynamic, too.”‘There’s so much time pressure on episodic television. Everybody was like, ‘Are you stressed about the time?’’Called “Snow Day,”.