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It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne.

Laurie Metcath is a veteran actor.

In the late 1970s, when she was in college, she and a few of her classmates started putting on plays at a Unitarian church in Deerfield, Illinois.

Those classmates included people like Gary Senise, John Malcovic, and Tracy Letts.

The theater, called Steppenwolf, became one of the most acclaimed in the United States.

Maybe you were lucky enough to see Laurie in the off-Broadway rendition of Ballman Gileat back in the 1980s.

She won a bunch of awards for her part in it.

And you almost definitely, at some point point saw her on TV's Roseanne.

For nine years, she played Jackie, Roseanne's sister. She's now starring in The Connors, Roseanne's

spin-off. That shows wrapping its seventh and final season right now. But have you seen her in Lady Bird?

You have it? What are you doing?

It's a fascinating, beautiful coming-of-age movie, directed by Greta Gerwig.

It earned Academy Award nominations for Metcalf and for her co-star, Sersha Ronan.

Lori and I talked about it in 2018.

Lady Bird is about its title character, Lady Bird McPherson,

played by Ronan. She's a high school senior. She lives in Sacramento. And she dreams of

leaving town, moving to the East Coast, going, she says this, wherever writers live.

Lori plays Marion, Lady Bird's mom, and the relationship between the two of them

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