Play It Again: Holland Taylor
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re revisiting a favorite of ours with American actress and playwright, Holland Taylor. She’s best known for her television roles on The Practice and Hollywood, and films like Legally Blonde, Romancing the Stone, and The Truman Show. You can see her latest performance in The Chair, now available on Netflix. She walks us through her storied career, from her days as a playpen baby (7:39) to the college experience that solidified her choice to place career ahead of motherhood (12:30). Having moved from coast to coast, she discusses her early years in New York with Anne Bancroft on Broadway (19:14), lessons learned from the great Stella Adler (22:25), and finding her footing in Los Angeles with Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies (29:09). Finally, we reexamine the day she met Gov. Ann Richards (38:40), and why she felt compelled to write and star in a play about her (46:50).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. I have a lot of disparate interests and I can go down a rabbit hole, an article of archaeology and I went down a rabbit hole last night in my |
| 0:24.3 | bird book looking for a certain tit mouse I remember reading about years ago. |
| 0:28.9 | I mean it's like I have avid foraging instincts for researching things. |
| 0:35.5 | And so I never thought in terms of |
| 0:37.4 | I'm gonna buck the system. |
| 0:39.0 | I just thought from day to day, minute to minute, Lilyillie pad to Lillie pad. |
| 0:44.0 | What am I interested in? |
| 0:46.0 | And I very rarely thought about the entire pond. |
| 0:49.0 | That was Holland Taylor. I'm Sam Fregoso and this is Talk Easy. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to the show. And Hey everyone. There are very few things I feel comfortable celebrating in 2020. |
| 1:28.0 | It's been a fairly gloomy six months, which is, I realize, definitely an understatement. |
| 1:35.8 | How about cataclysmic, catastrophic, something with us see, I don't know, it's been rough, |
| 1:40.8 | you get the point. |
| 1:41.8 | However, I'm overjoyed that on today's show, |
| 1:45.7 | we have the opportunity to celebrate |
| 1:48.3 | the life and career of actress Holland Taylor. She's best known for her television roles on shows like The Practice and Two and a Half Men. |
| 1:58.0 | There are also films like Legally Blonde Romancingancing the Stone, and the Truman Show. |
| 2:04.2 | But 2020 has been a kind of landmark year for her. |
| 2:07.9 | First, in the sequel of To All the Boys I Love Before, which my sister insist I need to see. I want a believer, I'm just not sure. |
| 2:17.6 | And then there's Hollywood. The Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy created mini-series on Netflix. |
| 2:24.0 | Set in post-World War II, |
| 2:26.2 | it's about a group of actors, directors, and producers |
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