Oh, yes, we're here with 5x-Tony-nominated singer-actor, Dana Ivey. You Might Know Her From The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Home Alone 2, The Color Purple, Two Weeks Notice, Heartburn, The Help, Post Cards from the Edge, Sabrina, Oceans 8, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Rush Hour 3, AND theatre productions of Sunday in the Park with George, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Heartbreak House, The Rivals, Butley, and Driving Miss Daisy. Dana talked to us about adjusting her technique for the camera, always being cast as Southern or British, and acting opposite Cousin Itt in The Addams Family films. We also got all the stories from the little-known sitcom Easy Street with Loni Anderson and the Ruby Wax pilot Mama's Back opposite Joan Collins. All that plus so much more! Dana was just the best!
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Discussed this week:
Janet Jackson belly tattoo à la "Runaway"
Most recognized for Home Alone 2 and Addams Family films
Lauren Bacall the consummate film actress
Loved working with Stanely Tucci on The Imposters
Played Miss Millie in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple
Grew up in Atlanta and had a long creative relationship with Alfred Uhry
Had to pay to see Driving Miss Daisy movie (never got to audition)
Has been an Anglophile her whole life (got a Fulbright grant to study at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
Connection between Southern and English accents because of dropped consonants
Double Tony Award Nominee for Heartbreak House and Sunday in the Park with George
Addams Family Values written by Paul Rudnick (Margaret was married to Cousin Itt)
Sitcom Easy Street w/ Loni Anderson and Ruby Wax written sitcom Mama's Back w/ Rupert Everett and Joan Collins
Played Trudy Stork, original owner of Elizabeth Taylor (the dog) on Sex and the City
Plays Hester Stone at front desk of The Plaza in Home Alone 2
Oceans 8 heist scene was a nod to character actresses— they'd all be good
Raked stage was torture in Sunday in the Park with George
Dana Ivey's Theatre Talk Roundtable: Nathan Lane & Mark Lamos
Judith Ivey and Dana Ivey are NOT related
Speak French, Latin and English in Rush Hour 3 ("anytime brother" was her adlib)
