she was next to nothing in the grand scheme of things in p&p, but i like to think she hung around the set quite a bit just because she was so enamored with everyone on it and wanted to absorb everything she could about how other actors worked, etc. so she was fairly timid but very, very eager to learn and, if she ever got the chance, no doubt asked el a few questions about her process and what have you. by the time anna karenina came around she'd really settled into herself, though, so she was much more about having fun, getting to know everyone a bit more personally, and all that! ella's a fairly easy person to work with because she's a consummate professional but knows how to have a good time simultaneously, and she's fairly good at reading people so she definitely wouldn't have bombarded el in either scenario. but she'd have been thrilled to work with her again!