First up, Adlon (who also serves as a writer and executive producer, alongside C.K.
)walks us through her personal series premiere, Pilot/Sam.
My inspiration wasAll That Jazz, the Bob Fosse movie.
Credit: Colleen Hayes/FX
Every morning he wakes up and says, Its showtime, folks!
The pilot was originally very relentless and this deep, harrowing look at 24 hours for this woman.
Hes a brilliant editor.
I gave Celia [Imrie], who plays my mom, some of my moms jewelry.
I put my dads ring on Adam Kulbersh, who plays my dad in the flashback scene.
On Constance Zimmers cameo:
We had never met before this!
Constance was fantastic, and now shes my homie we text each other all the time.
I asked my mother to name the character of my onscreen mother, and she chose Phyllis.
That was her mothers name.
Her father used to call her Phil, so thats how it all shook out.
Were going to watch it together.
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