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- You're also going
to be in this upcoming

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FX show, "Mrs. America," right?

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Tell me about that.
MIRIAM SHOR: With a few people.

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- Right, Margo Martindale?

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MIRIAM SHOR: Margo
Martindale, who

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plays Bella Abzug, which I was
like I must play Bella Abzug.

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OK, no, Margo Martindale should.

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[LAUGHING] It was like every
feminist icon from the '70s.

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You know, Cate
Blanchett, I don't--

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playing the non-feminist icon
of Phyllis Schlafly, examining

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when we-- when the ERA was--

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when the attempted passage of
the ERA, why it didn't pass.

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I think that's a really
interesting exploration.

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And Tracey Ullman
playing Betty Friedan.

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And I played her best friend
and first, to get to just

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be on a set with Tracey.

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- Yeah.

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MIRIAM SHOR: I-- I-- she's
someone I have looked at.

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She's an exceptional performer
and an exceptional person,

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it turns out, yay, you know?

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I mean, it's always so great
when you meet your idols,

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and they're brilliant people,
as well as brilliant performers.

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- Nice.

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MIRIAM SHOR: Yeah.

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And you're like,
[GASPING] it's possible.

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She-- I've always
loved her work.

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I've always loved her--

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her risks that she's taken.

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So to get to work with her
was kind of amazing, you know.

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And then Rose Byrne
playing Gloria Steinem--

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you know, I'd worked with
her before on "Damages."

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And she's a delight of a
human and to get to work

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with her in that capacity.

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I just was like, I
just want to be--

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I've got to be a
part of this somehow.

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When I heard about this
project, I was like,

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I must somehow be part of this.

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And I'm really glad that I was.

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