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The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum

Bitter Homes and Gardens: Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow on Staying Afloat, Staying in Love, and Staying Insured in Hollywood

The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

Society & Culture

4.7855 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week Meghan welcomes guests Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow. They are actors/writers/producers and also the married couple behind the YouTube series Bitter Homes and Gardens, a comedy, doled in out short episodes, about a married couple named . . Larry and Fielding. This edition of The Unspeakable is a bit of an experiment in that it's the audio version of a conversation recorded for The Unspeakeasy, the video series that lives on the podcast's new YouTube channel. Even though Larry and Fielding have solid industry careers going decades, they are emblematic of the way working actors have had to shift gears to accommodate a new creative economy, all the while remaining in nonstop hustle mode. In this conversation, they talk about their show, their marriage, their health insurance struggles, and the tension between loving their work and being frustrated with the turn their industry has taken. They also reveal that Larry and Meghan were roommates in New York City back in the 1990s. Moreover, the other roommate was a struggling actor and comedian named Stephanie Courtney who is now (wait for it . . . ) Flo from Progressive. They talk about Stephanie's guest appearances on Bitter Homes and Gardens and reminisce about the old days when Larry and Stephanie worked as cater waiters and Meghan slept in the dining room of the grimy New York apartment that's now a co-op they could never afford. Guest Bios: Fielding Edlow is a writer/comedian/actress who is the creator and star of Bitter Homes and Gardens with her real life husband Larry Clarke. Her debut special "Can't Say Slut" is now streaming on Amazon Prime and she voiced the character "Roxie" on the Netflix series Bojack Horseman. Larry Clarke has been a steadily working character actor for the last thirty years. He has frequently collaborated with Steven Soderbergh and most recently played Meryl Streep's lawyer in The Laundromat. He's currently shooting a recurring on the new Starz series HEELS and also played a "Fusco brother" in the latest Twin Peaks.

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0:00.0

What's so frustrating for me is that once you achieve any kind of level of success,

0:08.0

that I felt like I had achieved, that something would get easier.

0:14.0

I think in the old days, someone would discover you in a New York play as an actor,

0:20.0

and they would bring you to Hollywood, or they'd go,

0:22.0

you have talent, and then you can kind of like bump along and have this amazing career.

0:26.4

I don't think it happens anymore.

0:28.3

And if it happens, it's sparing.

0:30.5

Because each project seems to be like you have to start over from, you have to start over.

0:35.8

A lot of people pivot at my age into teaching full-time

0:39.8

or I don't know, continue to write in direct. And I am doing that to some extent, but it's

0:48.0

extremely, I find it very frustrating and because I need to still make money. Like you can pivot as much as you want,

0:57.2

but your pivot has to be involved with making some cash. And I'm trying to make my health insurance

1:03.2

through my- But you always, like we always do, like just the last-

1:07.5

I always do. At the last second, I kind of get, they get the health insurance.

1:12.1

We got it.

1:12.9

We're tier one.

1:13.6

We're tier one.

1:14.5

You can get your like perimenopausal medicine.

1:17.7

Yeah.

1:18.1

Yeah.

1:18.3

So now we can pay a lot for our quarterly minimums, you know.

1:22.8

Like I can even pay more money for that.

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