Cherry, baby! We are here with two-time Tony-winner and three-time Emmy-winner Cherry Jones. You Might Know Her From The Handmaid's Tale, 24, Transparent, Succession, The West Wing, The Village, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and her numerous theatre credits including The Heiress, Doubt, Mrs. Warren's Profession, and The Glass Menagerie. Cherry talked to us about playing the real life Eileen Myles on Transparent, grounding the violence on 24, whether or not she’ll appear in the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, and she shares with us an actor’s secret: her “moment before” from the Broadway production of Doubt. Plus, we got the scoop on going toe to toe with Brian Cox on Succession, whether or not she’d ever play Madame/Mama Rose in Gypsy, and trailblazing as a queer person in entertainment when she won her Tonys. This one was just a total treat!
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Discussed this episode:
Was Sarah Schulman’s novel People in Trouble ripped off for Rent?
Michael Greif directed Jonathan Larson’s original production of Rent
Gypsy Rose Lee’s autobiography, Gypsy: A Memoir:
June Havoc’s 2 memoirs: Early Havoc and More Havoc
Arthur Laurents’ memoir: Original Story By:
Gypsy movie with Rosalind Russell (1962) + Bette Midler tv Gypsy (1993)
Our Sunset Boulevard review on Patreon
Book about original production of Sunset Boulevard
We are digging into the source material for our:
YEAR OF Rent | Gypsy | Sunset Boulevard | Chicago
Bette’s Emmy performance of “Rose’s Turn” in stirrup pants
Spongebob creator Hillenburg sold rights to Nickelodeon and when he died they made a musical and lots of spin-offs
Tick Tick Boom introduced Anne to Raul Esparza “Boho Days”
5 Days at Memorial (Apple TV)
Nan Pierce on Succession was the bus and truck Katherine Graham
After doing Doubt on Broadway, she went on national tour with the show
Dennis Haysbert was first President on 24 and then it was Cherry as Allison Taylor
Had been doing rep at ART for 10 years when she opened as Catherine in the 1995 revival of The Heiress directed by Gerry Guitierrez
Cherry saw Tyne Daly and Angela Lansbury’s Gypsy
Angela was a tall woman
Jane Greenwood was costume designer for The Heiress and the Colleen Dewhurst’s A Moon for the Misbegotten
Has Colleen’s student id card from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts hanging on her wall
Played Ma Joad at the National Theatre in London last summer (will not transfer)
Jessica Chastain A Doll’s House got the phone stuff out of the way at pre-show
Testament of Mary with Fiona Shaw
Jessica Hecht was so good in Summer of 1976 and Eureka Day
Cherry loves J. Smith Cameron in anything
M Night Shyamalan’s Signs and The Village
Former guest of the show Celia Weston told us M Night’s camp was fun but didn’t inform the work
Starred opposite Mel Gibson in the Jodie Foster’s film, The Beaver
Twelfth Night with Diane Lane (directed by Andrei Serban)
Lifetime lesbian movie with Brooke Shields, What Makes a Family (2001)
We interviewed Veronica Cartwright who was in The Children’s Hour
Played Eleanor Roosevelt opposite Hilary Swank’s Amelia Eearhart in Amelia
Tina Howe and Jack O’Brien’s Pride’s Crossing is the thing Cherry wants us to see
Played Matt Damon’s mom in Ocean’s 12 even though she is 14 years younger than him
MOVIES CHERRY IS NOT IN: Cold Mountain and A League of Their Own (aka Avita Vayonne)
Does the audiobooks for Little House on the Prairie books
Claire Danes reads audiobook of The Handmaid’s Tale
Essentially played Eileen Myles in Transparent
Was NOT in the O’Malley with Mickey Rooney
Was never ASKED to be on The L Word
We talked to Barrie Kreinik about Eva La Gallienne and Laurette Taylor but said it was RUMORED, no receipts
Character in Noel Coward’s Hay Fever based on Laurette Taylor
Timothee Chalamet’s speech at the 2025 SAG Awards
“They Like Me” is actually “YOU LIKE ME”
