Lisa Edelstein

This is hilarious you're talking about.

I go, what is going on here? Why is my smoke detector going off? Why, what is, is it a CO2 detector? I started freaking out because my dog was freaking out.

Like my dog.

Jenny, how many times did you turn it off? Yes, wait, but I didn't.

You loved it.

I loved it.

And I just started yesteryear, which I think has been for a while and people have, have been reading it.

I like it.

So I sent this to Lenny because I was kind of curious because they have a running thing.

I think the main reason they do is because there's a running thing in different shows about Lisa Edelstein being trans, which is probably because she played a trans character.

on Ally McBeal, which I've never actually seen, but I know is a thing.

And I also wondered, I was like, well, are they doing that just because of that? Or is that partially like, is she the expression that I think I could say, oh, clocky, I'm putting in quotes.

And I did ask Google, is Lisa Edelstein clocky? And Google said definitively, no, Lisa Edelstein is not clocky.

If you are referring to Clocky, the puppet from Pee Wee's Big Adventure or something, that is voiced by this other person.

Here are some other roles that Lisa Edelstein said.

But then, trying to figure out who played this trans woman prostitute in House, I googled House trans woman character actress.

I will say, I believe they...

I do wonder if that is something that people were trying to recur because I believe, unless I'm confusing her with a different actress, Lisa Edelstein was on, I think, short-lived sitcom The Loop, and I think that they also have a plot where people think she is trans and she turns out not to be.

Wow.

So that, that would be unusual if it wasn't for the fact that maybe people are doing their own, we're in the 2000s, we're doing their own little version of trivia and cultural references.

And I remember that's when I really started to feel like an artist on set.

And through the example of the leads on that, like Lisa Edelstein and Alana Ubach, they really... um took the younger cast under their wing and and really taught me a lot not just in terms of acting but in terms of like how to how to be a professional on set and and just watching how they treated everyone with so much kindness and respect i was like oh i want to be like you um and that show too was the first time that i got to play a character for a long period of time and really see an arc and an evolution and um yeah i think that's when i really started to to find the rhythm of not just acting but working on a set

all right so let's jump in this series now to carry yeah how did this opportunity come along audition somebody you worked with before and was the audition always for chris

Yeah, it was an audition.