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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Judy Greer & Ice-T

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Two Bullseye classics this week. First up: Judy Greer. You've seen her as Kitty Sanchez in Arrested Development, as Cheryl Tunt on Archer, in Jurassic World, a bunch more. She's one of the most successful co-stars in Hollywood. It stands to reason. She's a gifted actress, she's funny, she's beautiful, but she still looks like a real human being you might know in real life. She talks with Jesse about her roles on screen, how she came to terms with being a co-star, and what it's like being recognized constantly on the street. Then, Ice-T, from 2012. He's been acting for over 25 years and he was a pioneer of West Coast hip-hop in the early 80s. His breakthrough on screen was in 1991's New Jack City, and he spent the last dozen years or so solving crimes on Law and Order: SVU. He's an MC and as the frontman of the metal band Body Count he's released more than a dozen albums in his 30 year music career. At the time, Ice had just directed Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, a documentary about hip-hop's origins. Ice talks with Jesse about the good old days of rap, where it's headed now, and how he ended up writing bars for the one and only Mr. T.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

0:13.0

I'm Jesse Thorn.

0:14.5

Judy Greer is an actress and she gets stopped on the street a lot.

0:19.6

The people who stop her always ask her the exact same question.

0:24.0

Hey, you look familiar.

0:28.0

What do I know you from?

0:30.1

So she's been in like a million different things.

0:32.2

Could be arrested development.

0:33.4

Could be it's always sunny in Philadelphia.

0:35.1

Could be any one of a whole pile of different movies.

0:38.3

And here she is stuck.

0:40.0

People won't let you go.

0:42.0

They really won't.

0:43.3

They won't let you off the hook.

0:45.0

So she has a strategy.

0:47.1

She calls it fan profiling.

0:50.2

She'll explain.

0:51.6

It's Bullseye.

0:52.6

Come me up my conversation with Judy Greer.

1:02.2

If you can't quite play her.

1:04.8

It's probably because she basically never plays the lead.

1:09.0

It's kind of like natural selection.

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