“She beat out over 100 other actresses for the part of Kate Beckett on Castle, refusing to be rattled by whatever Nathan Fillion threw at her in her audition and displaying a “moxie” that got the show’s creators’ attention. It wasn’t until the scene in the show’s pilot where Richard Castle cold reads Beckett and Stana’s eyes filled with tears, that the show’s creators were convinced they had made the right choice in casting her and realized that she was even more talented than they originally thought.”