Pamela Adlon

Emmy winning actress Pamela Adlon talks new season of 'King of The Hill' and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Mario Lopez, Sebriel Mario Lopez joining me right
now on Zoom. Emmy Award winning actress Pamela Adla.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
How you doing, Pamela, I'm great. I'm so happy to
meet you. Very real.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Sometimes, I guess, very nice to meet you as well.
And this is exciting. You're back as Bobby Hill in
the first new season at King of the Hill in
fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
That's so cool.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
How was it bringing that character back to life.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well, it's like, you know, it's it's everybody's dream.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Obviously, people are there's a lot of reboots and revivals
coming out, and you don't want to do it just
to be gross and be like, oh, let me.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Revive this one.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
I feel like the way that our team, our creators
and our writers have done it is just it sits
right in that comfortable pocket where people really were so
constant in this world of Arlen and it was such
a ground It always was such a grounded show. On

(01:06):
when people would say, you know, it's a cartoon, I
would be like, no, it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Like it's so real to me.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's so real that when I see a picture of Bobby,
I think I'm looking at.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
A picture of myself.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, but it was like it's one of those lightning
in a bottle of moments that you just you can't
believe that that would ever come true.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
And the fact that we were able to do.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
This season and have it, you know, win as hard
as it did was really kind of the chef's kiss
of it all.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
That's what I love about animation too. You can just
have complete creative liberty and take it in so many
different directions and you're like the Queen of voiceovers. You
got over a hundred rolls on your resume. That's awesome
and so impressive. Is Bobby and your mount Rushmore a
favored the ViOS?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh yeah, of anything, not just voiceover.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
I mean he is probably hands down my favorite character
I've ever done. And I knew it when we were
doing the first thirteen seasons fifteen years ago, when that
was happening. I mean, I started doing the show before
I was even a mom. And now all three of
my daughters are grown and out of the house. Wow,

(02:21):
and you know, it's it's a new world, but it's
still that like vintage King of the Hill, Like it
gives you that that feeling, that comfort that you had before,
but it still has the edge that also made people

(02:43):
feel really safe, like they weren't afraid to tell stories.
But it's never been mean spirited, and it's always had
a lot of heart and the most of all, it's
just really funny.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I've been doing some voice over work, and I've done
throughout the years, but like kind of a lot as
of late with this new Spider Man Carractoon and z
Uotopia and this other stuff. And I've got a whole
another level of respect for voiceover work because and they're
so good about being particular and what they want. I
love the specific direction in all the different but it
just it like flexes all these different sort of acting muscles,

(03:17):
and I feel like kind of helps it helps you
as an actor even with that.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Do you feel that way, Yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Love that you said that, because I always say that
it's not like the kind of the bastard stepchild of
being a real actor, not at all. Voiceover actors are
olympian in what they can do because you have to
infuse your body with the energy of the scenes and

(03:49):
the spirit before it's even drawn, before it's even realized
and actualized, and it's just it's really like a magnificent thing.
And I've worked with all the titans of voiceover, you know,
and and going in and out of these rooms over
the past few years, over the past you know, three

(04:11):
decades has been amazing. And like going into a recording
studio and seeing James Earl Jones just laying on the
couch that's coat, waiting for his spot to do his pieces,
and you know, it's just you kind of tip your
hat to all the greats.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
No, that's awesome, And I just want to mention this,
and it's a fun fact. Your first role was Dolores
Redchuck and Grease Too. Correct, Mario, I've always said Grease
two is hugely underrated.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I love one of those. I love.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
This is not a lie.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I've talked about this many times on the show.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
He loves that movie.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
While a boat, but I really think Grease Too should
be held a higher regard.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Wait, one of those you find me in the minority. No, well,
she detests you.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
You have to understand, I was fourteen years old when
I made Grease Too.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Wow, and that was my first movie. And you know,
it came out.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
And of course it got completely like people were like,
this is the worst and you know, it doesn't hold
a candle to Greece. And then you know, time rolls
on nostalgia cult status and now I mean where I
just I was on Jimmy Kimmel's show and cousin Mickey,

(05:26):
you know, cousin Vicky. She was like, you don't understand.
I never bring up Greece too. But this is my
friend Sharon and she's in the hair department. She's Dolores
because she only knew me from Better Things, my show.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, and she was like, you're Delores.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
And it's so it's so funny that there's this whole
group it is and I listen.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
My producer on Access, we always talk about it. We're
quoting it or so no, we love it. It's so
funny Delores to tell her, Oh, that's so much fun. Well,
so much fun talking to you, Pamela, and listen everyone.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Please be sure to catch the new season of King
of the Hill, which is out now on Hulu. Thanks
for checking in, love your shirt, thank you, Nice to
meet you

Speaker 2 (06:11):
With Mario Lopez