Elizabeth Meriwether
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33 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Elizabeth Meriwether’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think both of us were like, holy shit, we have this opportunity to make a show about women in their 40s and sex and bodies. And FX said we could do whatever we wanted. This is an amazing, maybe once in a lifetime opportunity.
I mean, I was so honored and excited when Liz called me about this. And Liz has been one of my favorite writers forever since I was 22 and I read this play that she wrote about a salmon. I don't know. We've been friends for so long. We're so old. That's what's really surreal about this, honestly, is that we're old enough to be reflecting on this friendship for like so long. I know.
I feel like I knew you were lying, but I didn't care.
She's a businesswoman.
Yeah. Well, I was like, yeah, I'm in like a really dark place. I'm really sad. It was like a, you know, dark time. Liz was like, I would like you to listen to this podcast. It's about a woman who has stage four cancer. And I was like, yeah, I don't know if that's good for me right now. But she also has a lot of sex. And I was like, absolutely. Just send me the link. I'm in.
And then I listened to it. And it was actually such an emotional experience for me. I feel like I... It opened me up to like actually have some like real emotional reactions that I hadn't been having like to just life. I suddenly was like just sobbing about everything because the podcast is it kind of is this like magic trick where it is kind of about everything by the end.
And all of life and like all relationships. It's this really small specific story of Molly and you and Molly. But somehow it also just felt so huge by the end. And I felt like I was just sobbing on my floor. I was supposed to talk to you. I feel like I called you. I was like, well, now I can barely talk.
I'm shaking, you know, with actual human feeling, which maybe I haven't allowed myself to have in a long time. Wow.
It was a long process. The very first thing that I feel like we talked about was like, In the podcast, you are in the role, as you are now, of interviewer. And so we were like, we need to make Nikki and her role as caretaker like a much like we that was something that we knew we wanted to build out.
You know, and I think one of my first conversations, at least with you, was just I feel like I grilled you. I loved it. I feel like Liz made fun of me. It was like, that was like a stalker. I was like, tell me every single moment. It's like an interrogation. Cause I was like, I want to actually know what are the things we didn't hear on the podcast? What was going on for you?
Like what was, what was happening in your life around taking care of Molly? And then I think,
She thought they were, like, women's sweatpants, right?
Like, I mean, Liz, we talked about it. And we were like, oh, wouldn't it be amazing to see an episode where we, the magic school bus sex episode, like literally go into her body. Oh, yeah, we were going to go inside of her body. Wait, what? I mean, we were really, here's the thing.
You know what I mean? Like, I feel like we. That didn't make it to page. That didn't make it to the page.
I think both of us were like, holy shit, we have this opportunity to make a show about women in their 40s and sex and bodies. And FX said we could do whatever we wanted. And so it was like, oh, my God. It almost felt like paralyzing at a certain point.
This is an amazing, maybe once in a lifetime opportunity. And there's so many things I think both of us wanted to do and say about this. But ultimately, the friendship and the love story of the friendship, I think, was like a huge through line that I think we just kept coming back to over and over again.
Because it's a very serious... Like, we don't want to ever feel like we're making light of it or making... It's not funny. It's really awful.
It was just like, oh, this is somebody that you'd be like, I want to die with you. Like, Jenny is such a singular, specific, amazing comedian. But she has so much love. You just feel really good around her. And she's, like, somebody who just makes you feel safe, too. And then I think Michelle is just so honest. Like, everything she does just feels so...
truthful that there were some things that wouldn't work and we would find them because of Michelle I feel like she would be like totally and she's so funny like she's so she's so funny in the show yeah and so subtly funny right like just a look or a nod and a ugh Also, I took it for granted that, like, two amazing actors can just immediately be best friends.
I don't know about you, but, like, on set, like, that first day, I was like, they didn't really know each other. And we had to shoot that scene at the end of the pilot. Like, it was, like, one of our first few days. And the I want to die with you scene, I'm like, I don't even know if they've ever, like, hung out. Like, you know, they just, they dove into it.
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