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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Lisa Ann Walter on the craziest day of her career

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Ann Walter has been in show business for a long time and has seen a lot. You may have seen her most recently as Ms. Schemmenti on the ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary. When we asked her about the craziest day of her career, she took us back to 2010, to the set of the Ashton Kutcher action/comedy film Killers.

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0:00.0

Trials in multiple states, state federal charges, plea deals, witness testimony,

0:05.0

gag orders. The trials of former President Trump are really hard to keep

0:09.6

straight and that's why we created Trump's trials, a weekly podcast where we break down the biggest

0:14.9

news from each of his legal cases and what it all means for democracy in about 15 minutes.

0:20.5

I'm Scott Detro, listen to Trump's trials from NPR.

0:25.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fund.org and is distributed by NPR. It's Bullseye I'm Jesse Thorne.

0:47.0

Hollywood, California, Tinsultown, where dreams are made, dreams are broken,

0:52.5

and nearly every day, something completely

0:55.2

fucking crazy happens to someone.

0:58.2

On Bullseye, we chronicle such stories

1:00.3

in a little segment we call

1:02.0

the craziest-t-t-t-day of my entire career.

1:05.0

On deck this week, Lisa Ann Walter.

1:08.0

She stars on Abbott Elementary, the hit sitcom about a Philadelphia public school,

1:13.0

Walter plays teacher Melissa Schimenti.

1:16.0

Ms Schimenti is great with kids,

1:19.0

loves her coworkers, and is pure Philly to the bone.

1:24.0

This guy does not look like an eagle.

1:27.0

Hey, pipe down, he could be a punter if you wanted to.

1:30.0

Go ahead. Lisa Ann Walter has been in the business for a long time.

1:33.4

She's seen a lot, and when we asked her about the craziest day of her career,

1:37.4

she took us back to 2010, and the set of the Ashton Kucher action comedy, Killers.

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