Allison Janney was the first guest on CNN’s new interview series “Coming Up,” hosted by former Variety chief correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, and the Emmy winner revealed the dispiriting advice she heard from a Hollywood agent when she was first starting out in the industry.
\n\n“I remember when I was very young trying to find an agent and I had a meeting with one — she said, ‘What can you play? Aliens and lesbians,'” Janney revealed. “That’s what she said to me because I’m so tall. I’ve played lesbians. I haven’t played an alien yet. So maybe I’ll play an alien! Yeah, why not.”
\n\n“People think because I’m so tall and imposing that must be the way I feel inside, and it never has been,” Janney continued later in the interview about her six-foot height. “I’ve always been very shy and not totally comfortable speaking as myself. I think that’s why I love acting so much. I don’t have to be myself. I get to jump into Grace [in ‘The Diplomat’] or whoever I’m playing. But just as me now, I feel just not as confident as my characters are.”
\n\nJanney added, “At this point in my career, I should be…
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