Annie Potts

You’ll hear Annie and me talk about:

  • Young Sheldon – the prequel to The Big Bang Theory. She plays Meemaw.

  • Toy Story 4 It’s coming soon! She voices Bo Peep.

  • Working with Tom Hanks (Woody!) … and details on Tom’s wife, Rita Wilson, and their sons

  • Annie’s sons, who are now “proper grownups”

  • Her 30-year marriage to her husband, who’s an executive producer of NCIS New Orleans

  • Splitting her time between Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York

  • Annie’s three lives (well, you know what I mean): her TV self, the Southern girl and a lover of theater

  • Being a workaholic

  • Working on TV all these years

  • Growing up in the South

  • Going back to the South

  • Concerns about the South – racism and prejudices

  • Changes in the world that she’s witnessed over time

  • Being green and clean in LA

  • Her eating habits, favorite TV shows and what she does for fun

  • A remake of Designing Women by Linda Bloodworth Thomason

  • Les Moonves

  • Women in Hollywood

  • Chuck Lorre

  • Alan Arkin

  • Killing Eve

  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

  • Get Shorty

  • Going “stalking fan” on the lead actress of Killing Eve

  • Being famous – and forgetting about it

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