The actors do these read-throughs, just on our own, which has been one of the most satisfying things about doing this job. When we first read it, we all got together and read it. What was your reaction when you first read the final script? Halt and Catch Fire Was the Most Quintessentially Gen-X Show on TV In this interview, Bishé looked back at the past four-and-a-half years on the show, and the final line Donna says to Cameron. Behind the scenes, gender equality was a part of the conversation: Bishé and her female co-star Mackenzie Davis got paid equally to their male co-stars Lee Pace and Scoot McNairy for the final season. You think about all the ‘Women in Hollywood’ dinners and cocktail parties. “My generation is those daughters, and we’re still having these gatherings and conversations. “What’s hard about that is … that’s me,” Bishé said to me on the penultimate day of shooting the series finale of Halt and Catch Fire. But the line that really got Bishé was when her character says, “I hope that when my daughters are my age, they don’t have to have gatherings like this to remind themselves they’re actually here.” In the finale episode, Donna, played by Kerry Bishé, delivered a Joe-like speech that looked back at what she had accomplished while looking ahead. She could envision where technology was going and be the one to get you there. Amid the bombastic charisma of Joe MacMillan, the frantic genius of Cameron Howe, and the fragile ego of her ex-husband, Gordon Clark, Donna Emerson emerged as the one who could see the future.
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