Julia Duffy

You Might Know Her From

Bang bang! We are here this month with Julia Duffy. You Might Know Her From Palm Royale; Designing Women; Newhart; Looking; Baby Talk; The Mommie; Intolerable Cruelty; and Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker. We got to chat with Julia about her incredible arc as Mary Meredith Davidsoul on Apple TV’s starry Palm Royale. That finale twist, huh? She also gave us the scoop on playing Patrick’s mom on Looking (and the importance of playing mom to a queer person), her iconic run on Newhart (7 Emmy nominations!), and her ‘90s run as “Julia Duffy, sitcom saver” including joining the powerhouse female ensemble of Designing Women. We also got to chat about Julia’s book Bad Auditions, who was in those rooms with her, and what it was like playing a high school student at 30. Truly a treat!

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Discussed this episode:

Lesbians and gay men agree on character actresses of a certain age (middle aged)

Anne’s women centric movies from childhood: A League of Their Own, Fried Green Tomatoes, Set it Off, Steel Magnolias, 9 to 5, Thelma and Louise

Damian’s women centric tv/movies: The 5 Mrs Buchanans, Hocus Pocus, Designing Women

Hang Time (character was Julie, actress is Daniella Deutscher who is MARRIED TO JAY HERNANDEZ)

Damian met David Chokachi and Gena Lee Nolin at the mall

Unicorns are people interested in being with married couples

A League of Their Own is for EVERYONE (David Strathairn is for gays and lesbians)

Damian told me not to Google Peter (not Paul) from Peter, Paul and Mary but I had to

RIP Dabney Coleman

Palm Royale was a wild ride

Linda Purl was an ingénue that Julia was always up against

Wrote book called Bad Auditions

Run and watch Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker aka Night Warning with Julia opposite the incredible Susan Tyrell

Got the role of Stephanie on Newhart the same day she found out her show Wizards and Warriors was canceled

Baby Talk

Designing Women

The Mommies

Brett Butler was struggling on season 5 of Grace Under Fire

Jason Alexander sitcom with Peter Scolari and Wendy Makkena: Listen Up

TV movie with Wendy Makkena: Fair Market Value

Played Jonathan Geoff’s mom on HBO’s Looking

Appeared on S2 finale of new Night Court

Did The Little Foxes with Kelly McGillis

Was Mother Superior on 5 eps of Passions

Appeared on multiple child show sets like Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Wizards of Waverly Place, Drake & Josh, True Jackson VP

Brandished a shotgun in Shameless

Went toe to toe with Lea Michele and Emma Roberts in Scream Queens

Did a bit on Sabrina the Teenage Witch where she appears on The Jerry Springer Show

Her drag was better than Dinah’s in The Cover Girl and the Cop (see Julia in drag @ 1:10:50)

Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon movie: Hot Pursuit

Sofia as Griselda Blanco

Gene Hackman: 93 and at a gas station

Olivia de Havilland died in 2020

Mitzy Gaynor (92) and Tippi Hedren (94) are still alive but don’t do interviews

Garbo left Hollywood at 36, never to return

Bette Davis in Wicked Stepmother months before she died

93 year old Clint Eastwood