An interview with Maura Tierney about her show American Rust, as well as her small role in the upcoming Twisters film, and her craving to return to a comedy series after all of the drama.
What is “good taste” anyway? Allow your favorite actor, musician, celebrity, or comedian to let you in on what they’re watching, reading, and consuming.Maura Tierney
thinks she’ll return to her comedy roots. “I feel like all I do is say that, people write down that I say it, and then it doesn’t quite happen,” she tells the Cut over Zoom from Venice, California. Most television viewers will remember Tierney fondly as Abby Lockhart, the nurse-turned-doctor from almost 200 episodes of, the hit medical series that experienced something of a cultural renaissance when it was made available to stream on Hulu during lockdown.
Below, the actress shares why she’s not a fan of the hair and makeup chair, her Bob Fosse comfort re-watch, and her fondest memories from working on. Do you think you radiate main character energy?got me, and I got them, so I had an amazing journey there. But even when I was the “lead,” I still had to like, pass the clamp every once in a while. Even if you have these major storylines, all of us would have to be in service of someone else’s story sometimes.
I get them from a group of my friends who are writers and directors. If there’s stuff that’s more out there I get it from my Wooster Group friends, like if there’s some really arcane movie showing only for two nights, the more obscure stuff.Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Sinead O’Connor, and Kathleen Hanna from the Bikini Kill. Imagine that dinner table of fucking fabulous lady musicians from all those decades. I would just love to hear them talk to each other.
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