Becki Newton Talks The Lincoln Lawyer, Playing Strong Women, And Her Favorite Former Co-Star

As you said, Lorna is not just a secretary. She's someone who knows the law and aspires to be a lawyer. If there is a Season 2, what are your hopes for where she could go?

There's so much to be explored. I would love to know more about her backstory with Mickey, what got them together, and where they went wrong. I'd love to know more about Lorna's ambition outside of the law office. What does she want for herself? Does she want her own practice one day? How would that be? I'd love to know more about what Lorna wants down the line. [The show] started touching upon that in the later episodes, [showing] that she does have this great ambition for herself.

You've played a lot of interesting roles. Is there one that's a dream role you wish you could play?

Every job that I've [had] has been a gift, [to play] these women that are complex and they're cool. I've been able to grow and age and continue to explore different aspects of being a strong woman, being a vulnerable woman. I've been so, so lucky. So, I've already played all my dream roles. And every subsequent job feels like icing on the cake.

I'm really, really lucky. "Ugly Betty" came along so early in my career, and it checked off so many boxes for everything I wanted to do, and everything since has been this amazing surprise. I've been able to work with so many talented people, and on every set, there are all these surprises that I wouldn't have expected. [In "The Lincoln Lawyer"], Manuel [Garcia-Rulfo], plays the lead, and his first language is Spanish, so I got to speak Spanish to him every day. I hadn't been able to do that in years. I was a Spanish major at the University of Pennsylvania, so I was able to actually speak Spanish at work every day. And that was this incredible surprise I never would've predicted.

[That's] part of Lorna's character that they reveal in one of the episodes, too — that she does in fact speak Spanish. So that's something I'd love to explore later, why does Lorna speak Spanish, and how much do she and Mickey speak Spanish together? That's an interesting angle that could be really fun.