Renee chats with Alanis Morissette!

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, Atlanta. So I justwant to let you know why I look
at you every single day scaring me. Yeah, you know, when you
came to Moheganson a few years ago, we took a picture and I have
it up on my Look at meand how cool I am. While we
look cute, we do look cute, and our hair was fantastic that day.
I have to point out, hasgood hair's day excellent? Now,
listen from from music to film toTV, you've you're pretty much covering the

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gamut here. You're like a tripleplay. What will they call you?
A triple threat? Some sort ofthing going on something? And before we
get into your Weeds role, becauseI understand it's it's something to giggle out
a little bit. But I lovedyour appearance on Graham Norton. By the
way, Oh thanks, No onetalks about that. That's exciting. You're
an ordained minister, right, Iain't home and you can actually marry people

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and that and I saw that episode. It was hysterical. Oh that's funny.
Yeah, he was funny. Andthen I was with Dame Edmund who
was totally cracking me up. Now, had you marry a lot of people?
I've married three of my friends whoare now married. I was going
to say three couple of friend whoare now married. So let's talk about
Weeds who. The show has beenon since I think like August two thousand

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and five on Showtime, so Ithink they're going to keep it around.
It's a hit, it's such agood show. Wow, Mary Louise Parker,
love her anyway, but what isyour character going to be on Weeds?
I portray Mary Louise Parker's character asNancy's gynecologist and her brother in law,
Andy's love interest. I can't saylove interest for romantic interaction. I

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don't know what you'd call it exactly. Well, it's showtime and it's not
for children, so we can justleave it at that. Okay, let's
do say it there. Yeah.It was a really wonderfully daunting foray into
formal acting for me, and youknow, two of some of the best
doctors I've ever seen, let alonehad the privilege to dive into like this.

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Now, had you want to toever pursue a career in gynecology before
this? No, I needed somesevere orientation on the set because I really
didn't know what I was doing.I was looking in all the wrong places
for heartbeats and be beheads, andthat's that's a little too visual for me.
I think my brain just went placesit shouldn't have gone. Yeah,
well, you know, I wasacting. I'm not really an Ada and

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obviously, Oh I'm sorry. Ithought you got your degree and that's how
you're able to be that character.I apologize. So will there ever be
any moments during the filming of thisthis show, and I don't know how
long you've signed on to do it, will you ever break into song while
you're in the examination room? No, that would have been a little odd,

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I would think so, but alittle funny. Yeah, funny for
them? Yeah, Now is thisgoing to be an ongoing character? Are
you going to stay with the showor did you sign on just for a
few episodes. I don't know.I'm not really invested. But I've had
the greatest time, so I wouldbe up for doing anything for them.
Basically, they're awesome. What's thedifference between acting for you versus being on

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stage? Is it Is it thesame kind of feeling, that same kind
of high as performing or is itdifferent? It's a little different. I
always think of it in terms ofyou know, acting to me is really
mascule and that I have to memorizethings. It's more of an active consideration,
whereas on stage and especially songwriting,you know, I have to show
up and be masculine in that way, but it's very surrendered and trance like

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and I just kind of lose myselfin it. So you know, it's
a different muscle altogether. Also,it's not these words aren't words that I've
written, so it's my interpreting someoneelse's work, whereas songwriting is directly from
my life experience, so very different. That's cool. And you've done a
lot of different TV shows. Iloved your appearance on Niptock. I love
that show anyway, but I thoughtyou did a great job there. Thanks.

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Yeah, that was a cool,cool three episode extravaganza too. That
was fun. And of course Sexand the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm,
and any other TV shows outside ofyou know, when you first got your
STARTPA. Any other TV shows thatyou've done that we don't know about.
Trying to remember none that I'm rememberingright now. I did a show called
Love Spring International, which was allimprov, which is one of my favorite

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things. To do, but itwas more of a culty a culty thing
and a show called Headcase, whichis another maybe lesser known television show,
but really really fun. Do youhave any more movie projects in the future.
Yeah, I'm attached to a fewof them right now. None that
I'm at liberty to fully talk about. But but I'm opituded. It allows,
you know, my not being ontour allows for my committing to these

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kinds of things, whereas when Iwas touring, I could only do a
little cameo here and there. SoI'm very excited about some time being freed
up. I always love looking atdifferent pictures of you because you sometimes you
hear a different color, it's short. When you had to hear short,
people lost their minds. Just likethat girl from Felicity, Carrie Russell,
when she cut her hair, Ithought people were going to pass out.
Oh, it's a right of passage. Though as a woman, you have

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to chop it all off at somepoint, right, you have to have
different hairstyles. Oh, I gotI'm getting the beat. I'm gonna have
to wrap up with you. Thanksfor chatting with us, Thanks for having
me. Bye.