Cameoing House of Cards Reporter: 'It Was Harder to Play Myself Than I Expected'

MattBaiTwitterProfilePicFun little item today from Joe Pompeo. He caught up with Matt Bai, the D.C.-based former New York Times Magazine reporter who has a two-scene cameo in Season Two of House of Cards.

Bai, now with Yahoo News, is friends with program showrunner Beau Willimon. He shot his scenes last August and September, and alongside an approved, dummy copy of the NYT mag, uttered slightly altered lines of dialogue:

Bai got to look over his portions of the script.

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