Holland Taylor answered every single question we had about Legally Blonde
Photo: Courtesy of MGM/YouTube Holland Taylor knows the type of woman she’s been famous for playing for decades. An elegant, high-powered bitch with a delicious sense of irony. Usually rich, usually divorced, usually the smartest person in the room. Acidic and authoritative, but unbelievably charming. Playful but self-assured, a mischievous smile playing about her lips as she decimates some poor wretch who just happened to get in her way.
I think I had just done The Powers That Be, which was sort of a satirical series that Norman Lear created that amazingly was not a success though it had a great cast. And that was a wonderful, wonderful experience. So I think I had come off a series of very good things and I was in a very good frame of mind. And I was actually sick when I did it, which was a great life lesson. I had a pretty serious bug, like a flu with the body aches and you just want to die.Well, the part was not that large.
In most of the movies I’m in, it’s like dropping a pearl in a bottle. That’s what an acting teacher once said to me about character actors, particularly in movies. You might have one scene that took even one day to shoot, although they usually take more, and be an indelible part of the movie. And yet have very little sense of all the other people in the movie. Victor Garber and I are friends, but we never had anything to do together in that movie.
Did that bother you at the time, that you were sort of put into these character roles, or these smaller cameo parts? In recent years, I got Mr. Mercedes, which I don’t know whether you’ve seen it. It was on Audience TV. That was a very warm and interesting character. And then I remember saying to my agents, “The last chapter, my third act, I’m going to play characters that are very different from that.” I just had this feeling. I said, “I’m going to play a character of enormous warmth and depth that is not like this in my third act. Mark my words.” And what it turned out to be was Ann.
As a queer woman growing up, that show was so important to me, and that role was so important to me. But it’s interesting: When I was researching you, it seems like you weren’t publicly “out” until after The L Word, right? [Laughs.] Well, that’s Ilene. In that first episode where Peggy appears, she says, “I was a lesbian once in 1974.” And Bette says, “Just 1974?” And she says, “Yeah, that was enough.” So, she didn’t have any judgment about it. Yeah. And at that ski lodge [in her final episode] she goes [into a car with that same woman]. If that’s ending up with a woman, then that’s ending up with a woman.
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