“I was always making a beeline for my inner truth”: Estelle Parsons reflects on her remarkable life and acting career with incredible stories about luminaries like Arthur Penn, Paul Newman and others. Plus, why getting Gene Hackman interested in filmmaking was “a terrible loss for the American theater”, how she found her way into a Shakespeare podcast, and what it’s like to play with Time. All this and much more!

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