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Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 147 of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and this very special episode,

a roundtable conversation with five actresses who are nominated for a Tony this year,

is brought to you by the iconic Empire Hotel

on New York's Upper West Side. I should note that the Tony's Broadway's biggest night will air

nationwide on June 11th on CBS. Our guests today are Deney Benton, who's playing Natasha, a 19-year-old

countess engaged to one man but then ensnared by another in 1812,

in the musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.

Christine Ebersole, who's playing Elizabeth Arden, a cosmetics pioneer and independent businesswoman in mid-20th century America,

in the musical Warpaint.

Jennifer Ely, who's playing Mona Jewel, a level-headed official in Norway's foreign ministry,

who helps the broker landmark advances towards peace in the Middle East between 1992 and 1993 in the play Oslo.

Sally Field, who until May 21st, was playing Amanda Wingfield, a former Southern Bell now raising her two children under trying circumstances in 1937 St. Louis, in the play The Glass Menagerie, and Laura Linney, who's playing Regina, a calculating woman from a complicated family in 1900 Alabama, and on other days, Bertie, a sweet and wounded woman from the same family, in the play The Little Foxes.

Thank you all so much for sharing your off day with us.

I know it's very valuable.

So to begin with, I just want to ask about how you came to these particular roles.

And in Laura's case, it is roles. You're playing

two different characters here. You know, they're really, I think it's fair to say, totally

opposite types of people. How did you and Cynthia Nixon arrive at this arrangement where, I guess,

every other performance you trade off? Well, Manhattan Theater Club had approached me about doing The Little Foxes,

and I, you know, it's one of those plays that you think you know,

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