ALL ABOUT EVE

Jason Segel recently confessed in a Rolling Stone interview that Simone, his character Peter’s love interest in the new deliciously surrealist AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere, was not originally written as a transgender character. That is, until he met captivating Hollywood newcomer, Eve Lindley.

“The only other time this has happened was when Russell Brand came in to read for [] . I’d originally written his part to be a straight-laced British author, like a Hugh Grant type. Then Russell came in, and gave me something entirely better,” Segel told . “I felt the same way about Eve when she auditioned—Simone was not written as a trans character. She made Simone so much richer, more complicated, gave her so much more depth.