Episode 175 - Holland Taylor

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Holland Taylor is an American playwright and actress best known for her television roles on The Practice and Hollywood; films like Legally Blonde, Romancing the Stone, and The Truman Show. This week, she walks us through her storied career, from her days as a playpen baby (8:08) to the college experience that solidified her choice to place career ahead of motherhood (12:51). Having moved from coast to coast, she discusses her early years in New York with Anne Bancroft on Broadway (17:00), lessons learned from the great Stella Adler (22:50), and finding her footing in Los Angeles with Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies (29:31). Finally, we reexamine the day she met Gov. Ann Richards (41:30), and why she felt compelled to write and star in a play about her (49:30).

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0:00.0	Pushkin I have a lot of disparate interests and I can go down a rabbit hole, an article of archaeology
0:20.4	and I went down a rabbit hole last night in my bird book looking for a certain
0:24.2	tit mouse I remember reading about years ago. I mean it's like I have avid
0:29.6	foraging instincts for researching things and so I never thought in terms of I'm going to buck the system.
0:36.5	I just thought for day to day, minute to minute,
0:40.5	Lily pad to Lily pad. What am I interested in? And I very rarely thought about the entire pond.
0:47.0	That was Holland Taylor. I'm San Fregoso and this is talk easy
0:57.0	Welcome to the show Oh, Hey everyone. There are very few things I feel comfortable celebrating in 2020.
1:27.0	It's been a fairly gloomy six months, which is, I realize, definitely an understatement. How about cataclysmic? Catastrophic?
1:36.6	Something with a C I don't know it's been rough you get the point. However I'm
1:41.1	overjoyed that on today's show, we have the opportunity to celebrate the life and
1:47.2	career of actress Holland Taylor.
1:50.7	She's best known for her television roles on shows like The Practice and Two and a Half Men.
1:56.0	There are also films like Legally Blonde Romancing the Stone and The Truman Show.
2:02.0	But 2020 has been a kind of landmark year for her. First in the
2:06.6	sequel of To All the Boys I Love Before, which my sister insist I need to see, I want a believer. I'm just not sure and then there's
2:16.0	Hollywood the Ian Brennan Ryan Murphy created miniseries on Netflix set in post War II, it's about a group of actors, directors, and producers trying to change
2:28.4	the fabric of the film industry.
2:31.1	For the better.
2:32.3	If you have not seen it, it's a piece of highly entertaining
2:36.2	revisionist history. While Holland is wonderful in all the projects I just
2:40.8	mentioned, it's this play that I keep coming back to. In 2010 Holland
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