On the fear of getting bad ratings for Peter Pan (like The Sound of Music): "I wasn't scared. My instant reaction was: of course I'll do this. This is a dream, so yes. No fear yet. And even now when I get these feelings of nerves, it's, 'Oh, I want to remember to deliver the line that way.' It's a little adjustment but not the macro-fear, which is probably protecting me from a panic attack.
"But I will say about the live thing and about last year: today's audiences like to watch things cynically. I am on a show [Girls] that is mostly cynical, so I'm no stranger to that. 'Hate watching' is a thing. You cannot watch Peter Pan cynically. If you do, you're going to hate it, there's no question. It falls apart instantly. There's a three-dimensional shadow! Like, where do you ever begin? What are the rules of this place?
"The same audience watches Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, which have all these rules and lands. So I have faith. People will hear the opening strings of music and know deep in their heart — it'll make them nostalgic and make them become a kid again. And they'll crumble. They might get one hate tweet out, really quickly, and then we won't hear from them for a while because they'll be reluctantly sucked in to the scent memory that will be Peter Pan."
![On the fear of getting bad ratings for Peter Pan (like The Sound of Music): "I wasn't scared. My instant reaction was: of course I'll do this. This is a dream, so yes. No fear yet. And even now when I get these feelings of nerves, it's, 'Oh, I want to remember to deliver the line that way.' It's a little adjustment but not the macro-fear, which is probably protecting me from a panic attack.
"But I will say about the live thing and about last year: today's audiences like to watch things cynically. I am on a show [Girls] that is mostly cynical, so I'm no stranger to that. 'Hate watching' is a thing. You cannot watch Peter Pan cynically. If you do, you're going to hate it, there's no question. It falls apart instantly. There's a three-dimensional shadow! Like, where do you ever begin? What are the rules of this place?
"The same audience watches Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, which have all these rules and lands. So I have faith. People will hear the opening strings of music and know deep in their heart — it'll make them nostalgic and make them become a kid again. And they'll crumble. They might get one hate tweet out, really quickly, and then we won't hear from them for a while because they'll be reluctantly sucked in to the scent memory that will be Peter Pan."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/ps-image-unavailable.png "On the fear of getting bad ratings for Peter Pan (like The Sound of Music): \"I wasn't scared. My instant reaction was: of course I'll do this. This is a dream, so yes. No fear yet. And even now when I get these feelings of nerves, it's, 'Oh, I want to remember to deliver the line that way.' It's a little adjustment but not the macro-fear, which is probably protecting me from a panic attack.
\"But I will say about the live thing and about last year: today's audiences like to watch things cynically. I am on a show [Girls] that is mostly cynical, so I'm no stranger to that. 'Hate watching' is a thing. You cannot watch Peter Pan cynically. If you do, you're going to hate it, there's no question. It falls apart instantly. There's a three-dimensional shadow! Like, where do you ever begin? What are the rules of this place?
\"The same audience watches Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, which have all these rules and lands. So I have faith. People will hear the opening strings of music and know deep in their heart — it'll make them nostalgic and make them become a kid again. And they'll crumble. They might get one hate tweet out, really quickly, and then we won't hear from them for a while because they'll be reluctantly sucked in to the scent memory that will be Peter Pan.\"")
