Laurie Metcalf

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Jesse talks with one of the greats: Laurie Metcalf. You definitely know Laurie from from Roseanne. For 9 years she played Jackie, on the hit TV show. She's now starring in The Conners, the new Spinoff. She's also an Academy Award nominee for her work alongside Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird, the fascinating, beautiful coming of age film directed by Greta Gerwig. These days, Laurie's been working a lot on Broadway. She's been nominated for a bunch of Tony's and won 2017's Best Actress award for her role in A Doll's House part II.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.7	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:23.1	Laurie Metcalf is a veteran actor.
0:24.9	In the late 70s when she was in college, she and a few of her classmates started putting
0:29.0	on plays at a Unitarian Church in Deerfield, Illinois.
0:33.2	Those classmates included people like Gary Seneis, John Malkovich, and Tracy Letz.
0:38.1	The theater, called Steppenwolf, became one of the most acclaimed theater companies in
0:43.2	the United States.
0:44.2	Maybe you were lucky enough to see Laurie in the off-Broadway rendition of Ball and Gilead
0:48.8	back in the 80s, she won a bunch of awards for her party.
0:52.9	And you almost definitely saw her on TV's Rosanne.
0:56.0	For nine years, she played Jackie Rosanne's sister on the show.
0:59.8	She's now starring in The Conners, the ABC-produced spin-off of Rosanne.
1:04.8	These days, Laurie's been working a lot on Broadway.
1:07.7	She's been nominated for a bunch of Tony's and 120's 17's Best Actress Award for her role
1:12.7	in a Doll's House Part 2.
1:14.8	In a profile earlier this month, The New York Times called her the first lady of American
1:19.1	theater.
1:20.4	Also in 2017, she starred alongside Sursher Ronan in the critically acclaimed Lady Bird.
1:26.0	The fascinating, beautiful coming of age film directed by Greta Gerwig.
1:30.2	When she and I talked last year, she was up for an Academy Award for her role in it.
1:34.6	The movie centers around the title character, Lady Bird McPherson, a high school senior living
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