This week we are joined by the very dreamy Roma Maffia. You Might Know Her From Nip/Tuck, Disclosure, Double Jeopardy, Pretty Little Liars, Queen Sugar, Nick of Time, and Profiler. Roma dished with us about the highs and lows of playing lesbian Liz Cruz on Ryan’s Murphy’s Nip/Tuck, navigating Hollywood as a woman of color while never playing your own ethnicity, and having to consider whether or not you can let your hair go grey for your job. All that, plus Anne and Roma are the same height, back to back. 

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Discussed this week:

Roma’s IMDB

N Sync “Dirty Pop”

Backstreet Boys “Everybody”

Justin Timberlake ruined Jessica Biel’s potential for lesbian icon status 

Roma Maffia as Liz Cruz on Nip/Tuck saying lesbians are losers

Disclosure scene woman-splaining sexual harassment to Michael Douglas

Head to head with Johnny Depp in Nick of Time

Also in blockbusters opp heavy hitters: Eraser (Vanessa Williams), Double Jeopardy (Ashley Judd), KIss the Girls (Morgan Freeman)

Christopher Walken kept pickles and pickled onions in his pockets and ate them onstage during James Joyce’s The Dead

Played Grace Alvarez in The Profiler (Robert Davi, Julian McMahon, Peter Frechette)

P. David Ebersole

Ava DuVernay directed Roma in Queen Sugar

Liz loses a kidney

Roma always cast as “no nonsense”

Roma had white hair on Bull  

That Gal Who Was in That Thing (2013)

Roma on Billions

Roma: “I’m an American, I act.”

Alanis played her girlfriend on Nip/Tuck

Alanis’ acting career: Sex & the City, Weeds

Roma reads while on set of Pretty Little Liars

“Mattia” is a typo on IMDB

Roma’s favorite curly-haired actress: Madeline Kahn

Loves The Sinner with Bill Pullman

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (dir: Rodrigo Garcia)

Roma closely worked with Julian McMahon twice: Profiler & Nip/Tuck

Roma’s fave lesbians: Charlene Bradin & Betsy Ceva, Rosie, Wanda Sykes, Ellen Page

Roma wrote Suze Orman about saying “girrlllll” and “girrrrlfriend” too much

Stirring a pot opposite Ashley Judd in Double Jeopardy