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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Alison Brie

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Alison Brie is the star of beloved television shows Community, Mad Men and BoJack Horseman. She joins us on the latest episode of Bullseye to talk about her latest: Apples Never Fall. We get into her time growing up in South Pasadena and what she learned about herself while working on the physically demanding wrestling tv series GLOW. Does she think the long-awaited Community movie is actually happening? Only one way to find out!

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0:00.0

When voters talk during an election season, we listen, we ask questions, we follow up, and we bring you along to hear what we learned.

0:09.0

Get closer to the issues, the people, and your vote at the NPR Elections Hub.

0:13.6

Visit NPR.org. slash Elections.

0:17.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun

0:23.7

and is distributed by NPR. It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne. My first guest this week is Allison Breed.

0:40.0

My first guest this week is Allison Breed. She's a very talented actor more than capable in both comedy and drama.

0:48.0

Her work includes the TV shows Mad Men, Community, and Glow.

0:52.0

Also movies like Promising Young Woman, the LEGO movie The Post Spined Me Round.

0:57.0

And there's probably nobody performing today who can smile uneasily through discomfort like Alice and Bree can smile uneasily through discomfort, like Alice and Bree can smile

1:05.2

un easily through discomfort. It's an astonishing talent. These days you can see

1:09.7

her on the new show Apples Never Fall. It's a crime drama based on the best-selling mystery novel of the same

1:14.7

name. The show follows four adult siblings as they piece together the mystery behind their

1:20.4

mother's disappearance. The siblings are Troy, Brooke, Logan, and Amy. The parents are played by Annette

1:27.8

Benning and Sam Neil, Heavyweights. Allison, my guest, plays Amy. Amy has a reputation for A. text messages. This clip comes from the show's pilot. It's been days since any of the

1:45.0

siblings have heard from their mom. Amy's starting to worry.

1:48.0

Something bad has happened to her and I don't want you saying...

1:51.0

Reacting Amy? I I left five messages.

1:53.7

Gob's a text, no word from the woman who usually calls us back in five minutes.

1:57.6

I'm with you, Amy, it's weird.

1:59.1

I texted her too. They're all unread, but maybe she's just busy.

2:01.3

Or maybe her phone is broken.

2:03.0

Simplest explanation.

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