Jean Smart Jokes Rachel Brosnahan Tried to Sabotage Her Emmys Win By Gifting Her 'Five Pound' Cookies I thought, “Why would you want to do that?” I didn’t have that rebellious streak. I never could understand friends of mine who wanted to do things deliberately to piss off their parents. They both grew up very, very poor in the Depression, so they knew how to do things for themselves and stretch a nickel. When there were votes for school funding and things like that, I’d go around putting up flyers on telephone poles with my dad. We had a very clear message growing up about being on the side of the underdog, which is why, I think, we were all staunch Democrats. What’s something that your parents taught you and your siblings that’s really mattered along the way? ![]() And then ever since grade school, I was always friends with the one girl that no one else was nice to, sort of the outcast. I was a cheerleader, so I was friends with all the athletes and the cool people, but I was also in drama and did plays, so I was really good friends with all the theater nerds - and I say that with the utmost affection and respect. I’d think, “What’s wrong with me?” But maybe that’s why I became an actor, or vice versa. It’s funny, because throughout my high school years, I used to think it was odd that I didn’t really have a clique. What were you like as a kid? Not to turn this into a Breakfast Club thing, but if you had to put yourself into a clique, what would it have been? They had curious minds, and they both were funny. My mother was super bright and educated, but chose to stay home and raise four kids. With the Smart-aissance in full swing, she reflects on her formative years and the people and experiences that shaped her. Over the course of more than four decades, that ability to tell a joke and then turn the knife - or conversely, to use humor to undercut complexity - has become a trademark of Smart’s, culminating most recently in her Emmy-award winning role as comedian Deborah Vance on Hacks and her meme-able performances on Fargo and Watchmen. “Get people titillated! Get them out to the theaters!” she says with a laugh. But like her character, Smart isn’t one to let facts get in the way of a good sell. To be clear, the “big sex scene,” as Smart calls it, with Pitt never actually happens. 23), Damien Chazelle’s outrageous take on the apparently even more outrageous early years of Hollywood, a film whose outrageous cast includes not only Smart as the ur-Hollywood gossip columnist and Pitt as an aging star but also Margot Robbie, Olivia Wilde, Diego Calva, Max Minghella, Tobey Maguire, and an animatronic elephant. Even more specifically than that, she’s talking about having sex with Brad Pitt on the set of Babylon (out Dec. More specifically, she’s talking about sex with Brad Pitt. ![]() Midday on the Monday before Thanksgiving, Jean Smart is lounging in bed and talking about sex.
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