Interview: Pamela Adlon on 'Better Things'

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Pamela Adlon is the writer, star, director and co-creator of Better Things on FX. The television comedy-drama follows Adlon's character, Sam, as a divorced actress, raising three kids in Los Angeles. In real life, Adlon is a divorced actress, raising three kids in Los Angeles. Sam talks to Adlon about her career, seeing your parents as real-life people, and the awful, crazy, beautiful experience of being a parent yourself.

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0:00.0	Oh my god, don't apologize.
0:02.8	I'm so sorry.
0:03.6	I just want to be hugged.
0:04.6	My guest today was running late to our interview in LA
0:08.0	because of the Australian actor Ben Mendelssohn,
0:12.2	who was also at NPR West for an interview.
0:14.6	There's a guy with a giant truck outside of Kankin'
0:17.7	and I was like, it's Ben Mendelssohn!
0:21.4	And he literally, I'm in a loner car,
0:23.8	so I didn't want to mess it up.
0:25.4	And he literally helped me park my car.
0:27.9	Thanks a village.
0:28.8	She was late, but she did not come in de-handed.
0:31.3	Get it all up.
0:32.0	Oh, I brought you a present.
0:34.3	Wait, what?
0:35.1	It's like jolly rancher crack,
0:37.3	but not sugar and your teeth won't fall out.
0:40.2	Halter?
0:40.8	Yeah, my guest, the actress and director, Pamela Adlon,
0:45.4	she came ready to play.
0:47.2	So we're not cursing, we don't.
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