Allison Janney



I can't remember her-whereabouts is she in movie?

"Coming at you like a shark with knees"

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She plays an exec with the soap opera.

I'm quite a lovely person - apart from my terrible taste in pie.

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I think she was the head writer for the soap...she was perfectly cast in that role.

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I was going to ask if people thought her character, Lyla, was just too unrealistic. Betty meets her at the "function" along with George/David. She talks about having written a scene Betty quotes from, introduces herself as the soap's producer, *and* later, on the set, appears to be the director?!

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She's the head writer - which is the pinnacle in soaps. Kinnear is directing the episode Betty is 'on.' I am not sure how Janney introduced herself at the party. If she said she was a producer that's likely because she also was - they throw that credit at sometimes dozens of people in production so they can sweeten their deals.

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