“I had lots of things that I thought were going to be the thing,” she says.
“Lorenzo’s Oilwas the first one.
I got lovely reviews on it, but it wasn’t the big one.”
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He cast her as a small-town bartender who wisecracks withPaul Newmanin this effervescent comedy.
“We didn’t connect big-time until we did reshoots and he’d seen the movie.
Then he said, ‘Can I come sit in your dressing room?’
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He was such an adorable man.”
“Clint was unbelievably kind and sweet and compassionate with me.
He made everything very easy.
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Plus, his sets are so quiet and relaxed.
You don’t even remember that there’s a camera there.”
“The last scene is about being happy and sad at the same time,” she says.
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Then he said, ‘Margo, don’t you worry about the rest of the movie.
We’ve got it.'"
I said, ‘A Southern woman who deals drugs?
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I’ll do this for free.’
Which I almost did.
But it was a good investment."
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She was easy to find within me.
I just tapped into my inner insanity."
The cast lived together in Oklahoma during production.
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“It was incredible.
If we went to the store, Meryl would say, ‘I’m driving.’
And she would give a shot to cover up, so [as] not to be recognized.
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(She took home a pair of guest actress Emmys in 2015 and 2016.)
“I have a burst eardrum, so the stuntwoman did the flailing about and went underwater.
But then again, she’s tough.
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“Isn’t it absurd?”
“At first I said, ‘I’m not doing that, Will.’
He said, ‘Yes, you are.
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The part is Character Actress Margo Martindale.
Who else could do it?'”
We got it removed quickly, but I told Will and he died laughing.”
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“The Good Wifewas so unbelievably luxurious to step into,” she says.
“RobertandMichelle Kinghave their style down to a science and their dialogue sings like great music.”
The Kings also offered her a cameo on their short-lived seriesBrainDead.
“They asked me to just come play a bug specialist.
How could I say no?”
“And I’ve been offered a lot of dying people recently.
So I’m going to let this one float around a while before I take another.”
