Mary Steenburgen

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Not many actors can be nice, warm, and funny at the same time. Mary Steenburgen has basically made a career out of it. The Arkansas-born actress made her film debut in the late seventies on a film called Goin' South. For that performance, Steenburgen earned a Golden Globe nomination, and she's only gotten better since. She has some great performances under her belt. She played Will Ferrell's mom in Step Brothers. She played Will Ferrell's step-mom in Elf. Melvin and Howard. Back to the Future Part III. 30 Rock. Oh, and she's even played herself on the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. So, it's safe to say that Mary Steenburgen is a legend. And in her latest movie, she's teaming up with three other legends: Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, and Diane Keaton. This week on Bullseye, Mary Steenburgen stops by to talk about her role in Book Club: The Next Chapter. She gets into her friendship with Jane Fonda. Plus, she reminisces on the first time she met her husband, Ted Danson.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:23.1	Well, it's one thing when you're an actor to be warm and nice.
0:28.5	Lots of performers out there play warm, nice people, are graded, playing warm, nice people.
0:35.2	And I mean, I'm no hot take artist, but there are also a lot of funny actors.
0:41.3	But to combine the three, warm, nice, and funny.
0:46.5	That's magical.
0:47.8	And Mary Steenbergen has made a career out of it.
0:52.7	She has more credits to list than we have time left on this show that just started, but
0:57.6	some highlights.
0:59.1	She played Will Ferrell's mom and stepbrothers.
1:01.8	She played Will Ferrell's stepmom in Elf, Melvin and Howard back to the future, part three,
1:08.4	30 Rock.
1:09.4	And she played Mary Steenbergen on Carburentuschasm.
1:14.4	I got this last week.
1:15.4	I bet they still have this.
1:16.4	This is a man's jacket.
1:17.4	Really?
1:18.4	Yeah, I love buying man's jackets.
1:19.6	This is a very nice, I didn't know this thing.
1:21.4	Look, it's like it's a pants jacket, half shirt.
1:23.4	I know this.
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