Work in Progress: Carrie Preston
Drama Queens
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 23.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
From a small-town girl doing plays as an 8-year-old in Macon, Georgia, to being a leading lady on her own hit TV show! Carrie Preston shines as 'Elsbeth Tascioni' in one of CBS' most successful dramas, a show she thought would never see the light of day!
Carrie Preston is opening up to Sophia about reprising the Emmy-winning role of 'Elsbeth,' which viewers first saw on the small screens 15 years ago in "The Good Wife," and what it's like playing a woman of a certain age reinventing herself. She also shares her journey to becoming an actress, director, and producer and using her platform for good.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | Hey, everyone, it's Sophia. |
| 0:07.6 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome back to Work in Progress Whipsmarties. |
| 0:22.5 | We have a guest today who has been dubbed the Queen of Quirk by the New York Times, |
| 0:29.6 | and you know how I love a quirky lady. |
| 0:32.3 | Carrie Preston joins us on the show today. |
| 0:34.7 | I am so excited to talk to her about how she built her unconventional |
| 0:40.0 | attorney named Elspeth Tuscone in her hit series Elspeth because this character actually |
| 0:47.7 | originated in a guest episode on The Good Wife and just kept coming back for more, then appeared on the good fight, and then |
| 0:57.2 | apparently thanks to a Colombo rewatch, the creators said, hold the phone. That's the show that |
| 1:04.6 | Elspeth needs. I want to talk to Carrie about how she's carried this incredible character over 15 years, how she figures out |
| 1:13.3 | how to make so many people in the world feel represented on screen, what brings her joy as an |
| 1:19.7 | artist and how she found her artistic voice, it was earlier than you might think, and what |
| 1:25.3 | it's like to figure out ways to use her platform for good, being so rooted |
| 1:30.6 | in joy. From supporting the LGBTQ community with Glad to advocating for folks with Parkinson's |
| 1:39.0 | alongside Michael J. Fox and his foundation, Carrie really takes her goodness on screen to off. And I just can't |
| 1:47.1 | wait to hear from her how she manages to balance at all. Let's dive in with Carrie Preston. Thank you for coming on the show. |
| 2:04.4 | I'm so geeks that you're here. |
| 2:05.8 | You're just the absolute coolest human, |
| 2:07.6 | and I'm, like, really amped about it. |
| 2:10.5 | Well, I should say first that I was on a jury once for an indie film festival |
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