Apr 16, 2020
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:
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)
Ava DuVernay directed Roma in Queen Sugar
Roma always cast as “no nonsense”
That Gal Who Was in That Thing (2013)
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