Mae Whitman: ‘Arrested Development’ to ‘Up Here’

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mae Whitman has been a professional actor since she was two years old. But nothing she has done over the course of her career prepared her for how terrifying it would feel to bare her soul through song in the new musical rom-com ‘Up Here,’ streaming now on Hulu. In this episode, Whitman looks back on acting with George Clooney in ‘One Fine Day,’ Sandra Bullock in ‘Hope Floats,’ David Schwimmer on ‘Friends’ and more as a small child before making the transition to grown-up TV star on ‘Parenthood,’ ‘Good Girls,’ and now ‘Up Here.’ She also shares stories from the set of ‘Arrested Development,’ where she received a comedy master class playing Ann Veal (“her?”) opposite Michael Cera.

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0:00.0	It's been almost 20 years since my guest on this week's show stole America's heart as George Michael Bluth's girlfriend on Arrested Development.
0:10.6	I know what you're thinking.
0:12.5	Her?
0:13.6	Hey, Ann, you're here. That's great. I wasn't sure whether you got my message.
0:18.0	It wasn't a message. We talked.
0:21.7	Well, Anne.
0:23.2	Did Dad invite you?
0:24.6	I just figured, life's too short.
0:26.6	You two seem to care for each other.
0:28.0	Why throw that away, huh?
0:30.0	Huh?
0:31.5	Okay.
0:34.9	Do you think we really do?
0:36.4	The father can tell.
0:38.3	Okay? It's as Anne as a nose on planes face.
0:40.3	This is the last laugh.
0:46.3	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was May Whitman as Anne Veal, with Jason Bateman and Michael Sarah, on Arrested Development. As May tells me in
0:56.2	this episode, that role was a big step in her journey from adorable child actor in films like
1:02.4	One Fine Day and Hope Floats to fully formed adult star of TV shows like parenthood, good girls,
1:09.1	and now up here, a new musical rom-com series streaming on Hulu.
1:14.3	I have been a big fan of May's work, really dating back to a rest of development, so I was so excited
1:19.7	for the opportunity to have her on the show and talk about everything that went into getting to where
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