"I could not escape 'Rachel from Friends', and it's on all the time and you're like, 'Stop playing that f***ing show!"
She went on to say that The Good Girl was the first time she was able to "shed" the Rachel character.
"But I remember the panic that set over me, thinking, 'Oh God, I don't know if I can do this. Maybe they're right. Maybe everybody else is seeing something I'm not seeing, which is you are only that girl in the New York apartment with the purple walls.
"So, I was almost doing it for myself just to see if I could do something other than that. And it was terrifying because you're doing it in front of the world."