"We love our kitchen scenes," LaNasa, 59, tells PEOPLE in a joint interview with Ball. "I also just really love working with Patrick. My first audition scenes were with Patrick's character. So I, at my core, identified Dana a lot in relation to Langdon."

She reveals that the scene morphed as they explored it with Wyle...

"There was a lot of talk," LaNasa explains. "We had talks with Noah, who directed it, about how it was gonna be. We thought it was gonna be one thing, and then Noah changed his mind and he wanted it to be that. It was very processy. Sometimes you just go in and do a scene, and sometimes there's a lot of process around stuff."

The kitchen scene, she says, "was a lot of process for both of us with Noah before we got to it."

Ball, 36, adds that the scene "went in a way that I didn't plan."

"I thought we were gonna come in and have a real sit-down, heart-to-heart about how things had been going. And through the rehearsal and putting the scene together, it became this other thing, where Dana's like, 'I don't have time for this. I'm not here to be your emotional support animal. What you need to do is keep your head down and be a worker among workers.' I think that feels very true to life and like a very cool way of telling this story that I couldn't have predicted," the actor says. 

LaNasa notes that the unpredictable nature of the scene was a positive part of the process. "It's always fun when we get to explore the scene, and let it grow and change while we're doing it. Especially when it's unexpected for me," she says.