Lisa Ann Walterand herAbbott ElementarycostarChris Perfetti"could literally be family," she acknowledges.
“A show where we play relatives?”
“I’m down a hundred percent.”
Chris Perfetti and Lisa Ann Walter on ‘Abbott Elementary’.Gilles Mingasson/Disney
“When I play Melissa, it’s a little green umbrella-ish.
It’s a little method-y,” Walter adds.
“She dresses different than I do except the hoop earrings; that’s both of us.
She’s certainly got a lot more hair.
She’s more masculine.
She sits different when I get that wardrobe on, I sit different; I become more Melissa.
And the accent also adds to that.
“We knew doing it how hard that was going to hit, and we loved it.
We loved doing that, all of us together,” Walter says of those sequences.
“There was another scene that was similar and it was way at the beginning of the season.
We hadn’t worked together in a while, and it was like starting a cold car.
There’s such an air of improvisation, and you’re in that flow state.
Last year, Walter celebrated missingouton a nomination by eating her feelings.
But, she assures, it was all in jest.
“First of all, it was an incredibly stacked category, and I loved everybody that was nominated.
Everybody’s got their little horserace thing of who should be nominated.
[Jessica Williams] got nominated forShrinking we were kind of neck and neck on that spot.
I love that show.
I don’t drink anymore.
Cake is my thing.
I’m ready to go.”
“There were many moments where I’d think, ‘This is going to be really good.
It just needs to have an audience.’
“It’s really hard to answer that because I don’t really have any point of reference.
I’ve not played romantically before.
I’ve not done a show of this scale a streamer show.
So this feels like a step up from the work I’ve done before,” she says.
Now let’s send her loads of romantic comedies to do.'
I think I earned the role.
I think Ambika would agree that we got put through the ringer in our audition process….
Listen to the full interviews with Walter and Perfetti, and Woodall and Mod, on theAwardistpodcast episode below.
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Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall in ‘One Day’.Courtesy of Netflix
Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall in ‘One Day’.Netflix
