Tim Daly Talks 'Madam Secretary,' Dating Co-Star Tea Leoni and Family
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Is dating important for me as. Finding out how my character and the other characters feel about the situations that there because tim I think it's what. Makes people engaged in any. You know filmed drama is dating the with the characters of feeling not just what they're doing.
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