Felicity Huffman & Anthony Michael Hall

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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While actor Felicity Huffman is probably best known for her tenure as Lynette Scavo in Desperate Housewives, she has played many beloved characters throughout her career as an actor. From Dana Whitaker in Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night to Bree in Transamerica, Huffman now is starring inAmerican Crime, ABC's Emmy nominated series. Jesse sits down with Huffman to discuss her preparation for her varied roles in American Crime, her relationship with William H. Macey, and how motherhood has affected her acting career. Huffman is nominated for an Emmy for her work on American Crime. Anthony Michael Hall is most known for the films that he made with John Hughes in the 80's such as The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Since then, he has worked on many projects, ranging from science fiction series The Dead Zone to indies like his newest film Natural Selection. Here, Hall and Jesse talk about his time working as a teen actor and the celebrity he acquired at a young age, his relationship with John Hughes, and his later in life career. He can be seen in his new movie Natural Selection. In this week's Outshot, Jesse talks about the function on "the game" in a comedy sketch, and how it works in one of his favorite sketches.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.6	It's Bullseye.
0:14.6	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:15.6	Have you ever had a job that followed you home?
0:18.8	Like maybe you're so immersed in it that it feels like it's taking over your life?
0:22.8	Well, imagine if you were an actor.
0:26.4	You were living with a role for however long it takes to make it dozen or so episodes.
0:31.1	Would it follow you home?
0:32.1	I guess Felicity Hoffman played a character named Barb Hamlin on the first season of the
0:37.8	ABC show, American Crime.
0:41.1	Barb's a mother trying to find justice for her murdered son.
0:45.5	She's also a bigot.
0:47.3	It was such a razor's edge to save the words that she had to say, but from the point of
0:54.9	view of doing something noble that I felt it was a hard dance to do.
1:01.6	And was it hard to put down?
1:03.8	Yeah, I had to be in a sort of dark state the whole time.
1:09.1	She was internally parched.
1:12.4	It's Bullseye.
1:20.7	Coming up, I'll talk to Felicity Hoffman about the difficulty of finding sympathetic ways
1:24.8	to approach some pretty unsympathetic characters.
1:28.4	At one point, while she was trying to find the right way to approach Barb Hamlin, her
1:32.4	character on American crime, she got some pretty good advice from her husband, also an actor,
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