Mar 3, 2022
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
These Old Broads, written by Carrie Fisher, co-starring Jonathan Silverman
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Nora Awkwafina Lum
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
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)