Laurie Metcalf knew the question was coming “at some point” so she came prepared, but when The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman finally asked about her many collaborations with producer Scott Rudin, the Tony Award winner “fumbled her words” as she defended his comeback.
“It’s so touchy. It’s so hard,” she said in a lengthy profile published today to promote their latest partnership, the new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, now on stage at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre. “He talked about his therapy, he apologized, he owned what he said, he reflected on it,” she said as she read from notes, per Schulman. “He was in the process of rehabilitation. So I just think that, unless we think there is no possibility of real rehabilitation, then we shouldn’t ask people to try and do it.”
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