Katherine McNamara was cast in the first Broadway production she ever sat in an audience for. She was 14, and one phone call rearranged the rest of her life.

In the opening conversation of Season One, she talks with Jazz Lintott about what that kind of early start actually builds and what it quietly costs. She unpacks the years of Shadowhunters and Arrow, a fandom intense enough to push her character to a worldwide trend in a matter of hours, and the strange work of growing up while an audience watches and comments.

She is clear-eyed about the craft too. Booking a role, she argues, was never the job. The audition is the job, and everything after it belongs to somebody else's decision. It is a reframing that has kept her working, and kept her sane.