Allison Janney & Ishmael Butler

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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[r] Actor Allison Janney and musician Ishmael Butler of Digable Planets and Shabazz Palaces join Jesse Thorn to talk about their work. Plus director Michel Gondry on the song that changed his life.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:13.6	Allison Janney studied at an acting school called the Neighborhood Playhouse.
0:18.1	And I should mention here right at the top there's about to be some bleep swear words.
0:22.8	Anyway, if that bothers you 60 seconds, we'll be back in 60 seconds.
0:26.7	But anyway, Allison Janney studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse and they had sort of their
0:31.6	own way of doing things.
0:33.8	It's called the Meisner technique.
0:35.4	It was named after the great acting teacher, Sandy Meisner.
0:39.2	So it's a whole system.
0:41.7	It has its own structure and everything.
0:44.5	The first year you did the repetition exercise, which was maddening and would always devolve
0:53.0	into a battle of you back and forth.
1:00.0	But it would start, can I say that on National Park?
1:02.5	No, of course you can.
1:03.8	Okay, so it would start with like I would look at you and say you're wearing a brown
1:08.6	tie and you would have to repeat everything I say.
1:11.4	You wouldn't say you're wearing a brown tie.
1:12.8	You would answer the question.
1:13.8	You'd say I'm wearing a brown tie.
1:16.0	So I say you're wearing a brown tie.
1:18.4	I'm wearing a brown tie.
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