hypnotist

“I elicited the services of a hypnotist to help get into a trance state,” the actor said.

“My character is sort of this B-movie hypnotist outsider person who’s a little bit off, in general. And yeah, there’s going to be conjuring of spirits; there’ll be some magic, some comedy, and maybe some hell’s gonna break loose during all of this. I’m not gonna say how, in advance; you have to come and see it for yourself.”

A month on from Carol's murder, without any arrests, police even went as far as hiring the services of a forensic hypnotist in a bid to try to get more information out of witnesses.

She wears a sleek, all-black look and an expertly cut bob, but she uses her body to both bare her innermost feelings and to become various characters ranging from a witch-like hypnotist to planet Earth embodied as Marisa Tomei in “My Cousin Vinny,” who is angry at humanity for climate change.

As great as she was throughout the show, Edebiri’s best performance of the night may have been as Solomon, an awkward student who tells a visiting hypnotist that they absolutely do not consent to being hypnotized.