6 Reasons Pure Genius Is the Next Best TV Show, According to Star Odette Annable

"She is super frank," Annable tells InStyle. "She is honest to a fault. She has an interesting relationship with James [Augustus Prew] because I feel like she's probably one of the only people that stands up to him, mostly because she's a doctor and he's not. And he can be rude sometimes, and she doesn't tolerate any of it."

"It's interesting but I think they're developing a love triangle right now with James [Augustus Prew] and Zoe [Annable] and Malik [Aaron Jennings], which is great because they're two such different characters," she says. "I think Zoe is painfully unaware that James is so infatuated with her and she has such a different relationship with Malik because they're both doctors."

"I read the script initially and I certainly thought that there's no way this could be real," Annable says. "But we had an opportunity to go to Cedars-Sinai and we sat in on a seminar with Dr. Brennan Spiegel, who's actually one of our consultants on the show, and he was talking about digital health. He showed us so many examples of what they were doing at Cedars-Sinai and it's exactly what our show is doing. It made me realize that this isn't just a script, something made up. It's an important story to tell, and it's something that, sure, we're not quite there yet, but it's five minutes into the future. It's a few years away which is really exciting to think that any family member could go to a hospital like this and possibly be cured. It's reachable."

"The thing that screwed me up is that I went online to a website called howjsay.com," Annable explains. "I was doing my work by listening to the word back to me. So then, I was working on set and one of our medical advisors comes up to me and says 'You're just saying the word wrong.' I'm like, 'No, no, no. I'm not because I did my research. I know what I'm talking about.' He's a doctor. So there was that. And then, because I had memorized it a certain way, it was so hard to do it the right way because it was already stuck in my head. So it's those things that really sort of jar you."

"Every so often I get out of the lab coat but I'm really comfortable in that thing," she says. "So I'm cool with it."

"I'm working with such fantastic people and the show is so great," she says. "It's got that special Jason Katims [showrunner] magic fairy dust sprinkled all over it. So it's such a different show and I'm really excited to see where it goes."