We’ve got actor, writer, director, producer Jillian Armenante on the show today, ay, now that’s amore. You Might Know Her From Judging Amy, Vice, North Country, Kittens in a Cage, Bad Teacher, Fresh Off the Boat, and Girl, Interrupted. We go in deep with Jillian about being the comic relief on a CBS courtroom drama (Judging Amy) and how that differs from being on a bonafide sitcom like Fresh Off the Boat. Jillian talked to us about her theatre roots in Seattle, the stage adaptation of The Cider House Rules that earned her a Drama Desk nom and a career in Hollywood, and what it’s like to come into the machine as an already out LGBTQ+ actor. We also got into the sisterhoods on the sets of both Girl, Interrupted (where she ran in a crowd with Clea DuVall and bff Angelina Jolie) and North Country (where she bonded with Michelle Monaghan, and Charlize Theron had them top off their whiskey shots with her breast milk). All that plus Jillian gives us some old Hollywood lesbian gossip and talks to us about acting in The Dark Knight without knowing her co-star’s lines. We are just giddy from this one. Enjoy!

 

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Girl, Interrupted details on Wiki (Leelee Sobieski took Joan of Arc instead of Girl, Interrupted)

How to Make an American Quilt was 

If These Walls Could Talk (1 is about abortion, 2 is about women)

Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her still mostly about men

Anne has announced The Mummy Returns is lesbian canon

Nomi Malone = Elizabeth Berkley

Stockard Channing at the beginning of The First Wives Club is gay canon

Glenn Close wore gloves to the Oscars

Oscars with Glenn and “Da Butt” 

Glenn’s drunk gif at the 2013 Golden Globes

SATC is not gay canon but Desperate Housewives is

Played Donna on Judging Amy (CBS) for 6 seasons

Dan Futterman, Amy Brenneman founded Cornerstone, Tyne Daly

In the episode “Waterworld” Donna gives birth in Amy’s house with Maxine helping her (tyne’s idea!)

Cider House Rules play (performed @ Seattle Rep, The Atlantic, Mark Taper Forum) won an Obie

Fresh Off the Boat was an offer 

Kittens in a Cage (featuring Tyne Daly, Constantine Maroulis) is a camp sendup of women in prisons movies: like Caged with Eleanor Parker, Wentworth, and Prisoner of Cell Block H

Stuck with former YMKHF guest, Heather Matarazzo (full episode here) 

Playled Cynthia Crowley in Girl, Interrupted

“Dyke” was something Angelina Jolie improvised about Jillian’s character

Gay energy on set with: Jolie, Armenante, Clea DuVall + Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Angela Bettis

Lisa Beach casting director 

Angelina bisexual talk Re Jenny Shimizu

BDUs

North Country (dir: Niki Caro)

Ensemble: Charlize Theron, Michelle Monaghan, Frances McDormand, Rusty Schwimmer, Jeremy Renner, Corey Stoll

Renner and Charlize helped create a shot called “the white dog” aka Jack Daniels + Jillian’s breastmilk

Tweeting about Barbara Stanwyck

Best Hollywood lesbian lore: Judy Garland and Mary Astor (co-stars in Meet Me in St Louis), Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel

The Barbara Stanwyck Show (not Hour as Anne said) featuring Anna May Wong

Gave Charlize a GLAAD Award in South Africaans

Actors she loved who felt similar: Marie Dressler, Dorothy Loudon 

Godmother to Angelina’s son, Maddox

Grey’s Anatomy 2 ep arc has her screaming nonstop

Ass juice to save your voice (from Josh Hamilton: boil grapefruit rind into a tea and sip)

Vice with Rockwell, Bale, Carell

Dark Knight Rises was extremely  secretive 

Played drums in a teacher jam band with Timberlake in Bad Teacher 

Black Sabbitch is an all girl BS cover band with Angie Scarpa on drums

Judy Garland slept with at least a few women

Marjorie Main (Ma Kettle, The Harvey Girls, Meet Me in St. Louis, Summer Stock) is one of our favorite lesbians. She was in a relationship with Spring Byington who was in In the Good Ole Summertime

Jillian was in Judging Amy with Amy Brenneman who was in Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her with Glenn Close, who was in Rex with next week’s guest (who was making her Broadway debut!)