Actor and comedian Amy Hill joins us (from Hawaii!) so we can dig into her 30+ year career. You Might Know Her From All American Girl, Unreal, Magnum P.I., 50 First Dates, The Cat in the Hat, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Enlightened. Amy talked about her breakout role as a 65-year-old grandmother on Margaret Cho’s All American Girl, clocking in as a guest star on nearly every half-hour comedy in Hollywood, voicing characters and toilets in everything from Lilo & Stitch to Moana, and the sweetest story about the late Sean Connery. All that jazz, plus Anne and Damian reveal a friendship secret.
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“Ouevre and Out” was Anne's working title for YMKHF
Anne looks like Fozziwig today
Plays Kumu, the cultural curator on Magnum PI reboot
Was Kumu in season 3 of Hawaii Five-0? No, that was Amy playing someone else.
Appeared on: one episode of some of the most high-profile TV series of all time including episodes of Friends, Seinfeld, Two and a Half Man, Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills 90210, Desperate Housewives, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Glee, Arrested Development, and The Office
AV Club calls Amy “Hollywood’s go-to Asian”
James Hong (now 91) once cast as Amy’s husband
Tzi Ma is Hollywood’s “go-to Asian dad”
Man in the HIgh Castle and UnREAL both shot in Canada
Mother was Japanese, father was Finnish
Just Add Magic Amazon series for kids where Amy plays a witch
Played a Nicaraguan nun on Santa Barbara
Memoirs of a Geisha cast with mostly Chinese actors
Hapa = a Hawaiian word used to refer to someone of mixed ethnic ancestry
Played 65 year old Yung-Hee when she was 41 on Margaret Cho’s All American Girl
Full Margaret Cho episode of YMKHF
Amy’s solo show, Tokyo Bound
Betty White’s friend, Maybe This Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HflbAYw95_w
Marie Osmond and her doll collection
Amy did ADR aka “additional voices” in Moana
Was voice of the Japanese toilet in New Girl
Amy on The Gong Show (she won $701 on the show)
Starred with Raven Symone in That’s So Raven, Big Fat Liar with Frankie Muniz (both were well behaved child actors)
Lindsay Lohan badly behaved on set of Herbie Fully Loaded
Daniel Dae Kim played her husband in David Henry Hwang play, Golden Child
Played lesbian opposite Laura Dern in Enlightened, and in the Julie Brown sitcom, Strip Mall
Her role in The Naked Truth was written for a “Danny Devito type” and LL Cool J was also up for the role. (Tea Leoni tried to get fired from The Naked Truth because she hated it so much)
Was in The Cat in the Hat with nightmare known as Mike Myers
Starred opposite Pauly Shore in one season sitcom, Pauly
50 First Dates
Amy Pascal tried to get Amy Hill fired after a table read of 50 First Dates. Years later her racist emails were exposed.
Kenny G went to highschool with Amy HIll. Fuck him.
Glee, Beverly Hills 90210, Desperate Housewives, but 90210 was most toxic
Shannen Doherty controversy
Damian loves Ian Ziering
Of the Strip Mall cast, Amy would enter Julie’s home because she probably wears a mask
Victoria Jackson is a problem
Sean Connery was wonderful. He and Harvey Keitel kissed her on the cheek during Rising Sun
Connery sang South Pacific to her
The Life and TImes of Juniper Lee created by Judd Winick (who married his Real World San Francisco castmate Pam)
Connecting this week’s guest to next week’s: Amy Hill is in 50 First Dates with Adam Sandler; The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers; and Big Fat Liar with Nora Dunn. Next week’s guest is a former SNL castmember.
Glenn Close’s character in Hillbilly Elegy is named MaMaw.
We were both into Puck from Real World San Francisco (dipping his fingers in PB)
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