- [Helen] I'm Helen Hunt, I play Nancy Campbell who is an amalgam of a few reporters of the day.
One was a 29 year old woman at the time who was the one to break the story about the beginning of the war.
She was traveling on the German Polish border, and there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of German tanks.
I sat down to do my research and Google female reporters during World War II.
And it was, a lot of men popped up and very, very, very few women.
I'm playing someone who's hoping not to get their credentials revoked as she tries to tell the truth.
- [Nancy] The wartime broadcasting conditions here mean that I have to be careful what I say.
- [Helen] I'm interested and I'm very moved by this idea that your calling is to bear witness.
- [Woman] It's illegal to listen to your broadcast, Nancy, - [Nancy] I know did you listen to it?
- [Woman] Of course, war's never good, huh?
- [Helen] You obviously can't tell this whole story but the intimacy I think is what drew me to it and the opportunity which you get as an actor.
You know, I knew what I thought was a decent amount of detail about the history of the war, but I didn't know hour by hour, day by day.
And that's, I think one of the things that makes this piece unique is that our whole stretch of seven episodes is simply the first year of the war and I really didn't understand what the first moments of war were like.
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