All the Women in Actor Betty Gilpin’s Brain

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today, we sit with actor Betty Gilpin! We talk about her role in the prescient new Peacock series Mrs. Davis (6:35), her relationship to technology and social media (8:54), and growing up around actor parents (17:25). Then, we discuss her early years studying acting (20:51), under the legendary Dianne Wiest (22:10), and her path from college to off-Broadway theater (26:30).

In the back half, we walk through her rapid ascent from Nurse Jackie to GLOW (35:28), the ‘seesaw of acting’ she experienced (39:20), and the weight of her work (41:15). To close, Betty honors the next generation of performers (46:07) and shares a formative passage from her book, All the Women in My Brain (47:48).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so welcome to the show. Today I am joined by actor Betty Gilpin. You likely first saw Gilpin and glow to Netflix
0:48.9	original series about a group of women participating in a kind of makeshift wrestling organization.
0:55.6	In it Gilpin played Debbie Egan, a mother and former soap star who joins GLO
1:01.8	after discovering her husband has cheated on her with her best friend, played by
1:06.7	Allison Bree. The show ran from 2017 to 2020 with Gilpin receiving an Emmy nomination for each of its three seasons.
1:16.0	She's now returned with a new series called Mrs Davis,
1:20.0	created by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindeloff.
1:24.7	At the top of this episode, Betty and I attempt to offer a log line, but essentially,
1:30.4	the titular Mrs Davis is a kind of omniscient artificial intelligence, with the direct
1:36.2	line to most sentient people.
1:39.4	That is, except for a small resistance spearheaded by a nun named Simone, played by Gilpin, who aims to
1:46.7	dismantle this not so benevolent algorithm.
1:50.4	In case you needed further clarity, and I'm sure you do, here's a clip from the trailer.
1:57.0	Is it okay by proxy?
2:01.0	Sorry, she'll speak to me through here, and then I'll just repeat whatever she says, not she.
2:06.0	It is a machine.
2:11.0	She wants to talk, talk, talk, talk to you.
2:15.0	If I say no, it's just going to send someone else, isn't it?
2:18.0	Probably.
2:19.0	You are the only person on the planet who can fulfill this quest.
2:25.0	You must locate the Holy Grail.
2:31.0	Mrs. Davis is all knowing and all powerful.
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