Just like her indomitable Melissa Schemmenti on “Abbott Elementary,” Lisa Ann Walter is “a gal who loves a deal.” On the SAG negotiating committee, she’s pushing for the biggest one yet.
advocating for her fellow actors. Our interview began late because Walter, a member of the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee, was in a “90-minute” meeting that lasted more than two hours. “This was nothing,” she insisted, still in bright spirits. “The actual negotiations were a solid month of eight-hour days.
This is why [“Abbott” co-star] Sheryl Lee Ralph and I got along so well when we first met. We were single moms raising our kids in one of the most expensive cities in America. I’m the single mom who is going to the dollar store to get things for my kid’s birthday party. I’m in Ralphs in the meat aisles with the markdowns. They think because they saw me in “The Parent Trap,” which airs every five seconds on television, I’ve got a boatload of money.
We were lucky enough that [“Abbott” creator, showrunner and star] Quinta Brunson, who is a wunderkind, made a specific point in hiring two women who were both of that age. A lot of times, the green-lighters will say: “You’ve already got one over-50. Her friend should be 35ish.” And Quinta was like, “No, these are women who have been there forever, and they need to be actresses we’ve known forever, who would have known each other for decades.
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