We are just over the moon for this week’s guest, Anna Maria Horsford. You Might Know Her From Friday, Pose, The Wayans Brothers, The Bold & the Beautiful, Hacks, Minority Report, How High, St. Elmo's Fire, The Fan, The Last O.G. and Amen. Anna Maria just gave it all to us. We talked about her playing Ice Cube’s (and Method Man and Redman’s) mom in iconic stoner fare, talking shit about The Wayans Brothers before she realized she was a series regular, sinking her teeth into a daytime soap as Hollywood vet, and renegotiating her Amen contract amidst network pushback. But that’s not all! We also got into the landmark series Soul; her guest appearance on Pose opposite Janet Hubert and Jackée Harry; and how (why?) Steven Spielberg loves pregnant women. This one was just beyond. RIP to that extra in The Stone Pillow!
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Discussed this week:
Special thanks to our intern, Ronette the Pit
So many deaths this week: Sidney Poitier, Bob Saget, and of course Bob Durst
Bob Saget in Half Baked: “have you ever sucked dick for coke?”
Bob Saget emceed Anne Meara’s funeral
Bob Durst posed as a deaf mute then killed and dismembered his neighbor and got off
Documentary about Bob Durst
Maria Ewing, mother of Rebecca Hall just passed away
Nella Larsen’s novel, Passing
Passing (directed and adapted by Rebecca Hall) on Netflix
Ruth Negga is a movie star holy smokes
Rebeca Hall’s Fresh Air interview
Let’s turn the SAG awards into the new Golden Globes
JoBeth Williams used to produce the SAG broadcast (YMKHF Ep #99 JoBeth Williams)
First job was with Joe Papp at Harlem Shakespeare Festival
Went to Sweden to meet Ingmar Bergman. Didn’t meet him but did meet Sven Nykvist
Lee Grant directed Anna Maria and Marlo Thomas in Nobody’s Child
Worked as a PA on the WNYC Soul (go watch on Amazon Prime now!)
Anna Maria reading a poem on Soul!
Played Craig’s mom in Friday (1995) and Friday After Next (2002)
Played Thelma Frye on Amen! “The oldest living virgin” (1986-1991) the Sherman Hemsley sitcom
Ed Weinberger (Taxi, The Cosby Show, Amen)
Plays Vivian Avant on The Bold and the Beautiful (TV daughter is trans)
Had 2 eps on Grey’s Anatomy and was SO GOOD as Liz Fallon (1x04, 03x17)
Mike Nichols (Heartburn), Steven Spielberg (Minority Report) F. Gary Gray (Set it Off, Friday), Joel Shumacher (St Elmo’s Fire), Alan Pakula (Presumed Innocent), Louis Malle (Cracker)
Page Six in the New York Post
Played Dee Baxter, security guard on The Wayans’ Brothers sitcom
William Friedkin was a screamer (C.A.T. Squad)
Plays moms in stoner comedies: Friday (Ice Cube’s mom), How High (Redman’s mom), Method and Red (Method’s mom)
“Stephen loves pregnant women”
Played a prostitute in St. Elmo’s Fire opposite Andrew McCarthy
Plays Pray Tell’s mom on last season of Pose (Jackee Harry on 227 and Janet Hubert from Fresh Prince also star)
Bill (opp Mickey Rooney, 1981), The Fan (opp Lauren Bacall, 1981), and Stone PIllow (opp Lucille Ball, 1985)
Went out with Christopher Reeve (co-starred with him in Street Smart) and Corbin Bernsen
How many pregnant women are in Steven Spielberg’s movies? Anne will compile a list
Anna Maria doing 8 episodes on the CBS sitcom, B Positive (starring former guest of this show, Annaleigh Ashford YMKHF ep #40)
Crazy Days & Nights have revealed their Sex and the City blind item from 20 years ago!
