"First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people"

In this quote, Tea Leoni is referring to her return to acting after taking a break for motherhood. She was trying to find a role that was less requiring and more pleasurable, and she found that in the relationship between the 2 characters in the movie she was thinking about. She was not as interested in the character of Kate as she was in the relationship in between the two individuals. This suggests that Tea Leoni was searching for a function that was more about the connection between the characters than the specific characters themselves. She was trying to find a function that was more about the relationship between the two people than the private characters. This quote shows that Tea Leoni was looking for a role that was more about the connection between the characters than the private characters themselves. It also shows that she was searching for a function that was more enjoyable and less demanding than her previous functions.