Laurie Metcalf, currently starring in the hit Broadway revival Death of a Salesman co-starring Nathan Lane, speaks emotionally about the show’s producer (and her frequent collaborator) Scott Rudin in a lengthy New Yorker profile out today.
“It’s so touchy,” she tells writer Michael Schulman, who notes in the profile that Metcalf teared up when speaking about a rift with Chicago’s Steppenwolf theater company over her involvement with the controversial producer. “It’s so hard.”
Schulman writes, “When I asked Metcalf about her decision to work with Rudin again, she fumbled for words before taking a piece of notebook paper from her fanny pack. She had reread his [New York] Times interview and jotted down notes. ‘He talked about his therapy, he apologized, he owned what he said, he reflected on it,’ she said, haltingly. ‘He was in the process of rehabilitation. So I just think that, unless we think
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