Laurie Metcalf

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Laurie Metcalf is on a roll. The 62-year-old actress is coming off a year that included a Tony Award for her performance in “A Doll’s House,” an Oscar nomination for her acclaimed role in “Lady Bird” and a revival of her Emmy-winning performance on the hit TV sitcom “Roseanne.” In this week’s episode of “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks with the actress about her whirlwind of a year and how she juggles that crazy work schedule, including her latest adventure on Broadway.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's going on guys?
0:02.6	Willie Geist here.
0:03.6	You're listening to another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:07.6	You guys have been awesome listening to this downloading and subscribing it.
0:11.8	Our last episode of Damien Lewis, the one before that with Bill Murray, Chadwick Boseman,
0:16.8	Drew Barrymore, John Goodman, the list goes on and on and on, Emily Blunt as well.
0:21.9	And this week we've got an amazing guest.
0:24.0	I think you're going to love it.
0:26.4	Is the only person I can think of who in the last year won the Tony for Best Actress on Broadway,
0:32.4	was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the Academy Awards,
0:37.8	and is one of the stars of both the number one and number two shows on television.
0:44.4	How's that for a year?
0:45.8	Her name is Laurie Metcalf.
0:47.2	She was of course one of the stars of Roseanne and its original run 21 years ago back
0:53.0	for the explosive reboot that's gone crazy, not just in terms of ratings,
0:57.6	but in terms of driving some cultural conversation.
1:00.0	She's also on the Big Bang Theory, which is number two show on TV.
1:03.9	She was nominated for that Oscar for Lady Bird.
1:08.0	And now she's in a new play on Broadway with Tony nominations coming out again this week.
1:13.1	She could be nominated again.
1:14.8	She is on fire.
1:16.4	She kind of for 40 years, a little under the radar.
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