Emmy-winning actress Jodi Long is here. You Might Know Her From Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Dash & Lily, All-American Girl, The Hot Chick, Soursweet, Patty Hearst, Sullivan & Son, the 2002 Broadway revival of Flower Drum Song. We had such a far-reaching conversation with Jodi covering everything from her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, her upbringing with vaudevillian parents, her solo show American Jade, and playing Margaret Cho’s mother on the historic All-American Girl. All that plus her iconic line readings on Sex and the City and The Hot Chick, her voice work in Dash & Lily, and the importance of Flower Drum Song. Come for the sitcom and theatre conversations but stay for Striking Distance and The Exorcist III reveals! 

Mannequin 2: On the Move is Kristy Swanson and William Ragsdale, not Jonathan Silverman

Ragsdale was the lead of Herman’s Head (with Yeardley Smith and Jane Sibbett)

Black No More was ambitious but not perfect. Tamika Lawrence was a revelation

Anne hated Belfast aka Jamie Dornan’s “Everlasting Love” press tour

Kenneth Branagh may have (CO!)-directed Thor but  doesn’t make Anne’s list of men

Van Morrison is a truther

These Old Broads, written by Carrie Fisher, co-starring Jonathan Silverman 

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Nora Awkwafina Lum

Lucy Liu also from Queens 

Jodi Long’s parents were vaudevillians, Trudy and Larry Leong

Documentary about parents, Long Story Short 

Played Madame Liang 2002 Broadway revival of Flower Drum Song (revised book and lyrics by David Henry Hwang)  

Jodi doing “Grant Avenue” on Broadway. “Don’t Marry Me” from the OBC

In Paul Schrader’s Patty Hearst, Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Howard’s Splash 

Sullivan and Son was a sitcom she loved working on 

Played an Imelda Marcos kinda character on Cafe Cafe Americain with Valerie Bertinelli

Margaret Cho’s mom in the groundbreaking sitcom, American Girl

Pat Morita sitcom, Mr T and Tina

Robocop vs Wayans Bros.’ wig 

Accent as Mrs Basil E in Dash & Lilly

Nowhere to Go But Up with Martin Balsam and Dorothy Loudon

Swam in the Esther Williams tank but Brice Willis didn’t show up 

From The Hot Chick: “Ling Ling, you forgot your bling bling”

Exorcist III dream sequence had her star opposite Patrick Ewing and Fabio

Played a lesbian on famed ep of Sex and the City 

!!! Patti Labelle on Sesame Street !!!

Debi Mazar, Michelle Visage, and Leah Remini all bffs (have super famous other best friends: Madonna, RuPaul, J. Lo)