Really Famous with Kara Mayer Robinson: Elizabeth Perkins

Elizabeth Perkins

Jan 21, 2020

Actress Elizabeth Perkins joins me today! She's on three current TV series (This Is Us, Truth Be Told, A Moody Christmas) and has had a robust career including roles in:

Weeds
Sharp Objects
Big
About Last Night
The Flintstones
Miracle on 34th Street
Must Love Dogs
Truth Be Told -- just released on Apple TV+ co-starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul
A Moody Christmas -- a limited series on Fox co-starring Denis Leary
This Is Us -- she's Rebecca's mom

We cover:

A very odd fact about Big involving Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford
Weeds and how weird it was for her daughter after her full frontal nudity
Tom Hanks
Her obsession with true crime dramas like Snapped and Making of a Murderer
Why she's old school
Why she loves paper clips, post-it notes and staplers
Her friend Griffin Dunne (a former Really Famous guest!)
Her close-knit community of actors and peers
This includes Jeff Perry, Ron and Nancy Perkins, John Malkovich, Diane Lane, Gary Cole, Laurie Metcalf and Charlayne Woodard
Her former manager, Bernie Brillstein
Flushing, NY; Vermont; Massachusetts
Her worst characteristics
One movie she wishes she didn't do
Who she thinks she is