Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 19 - Kathleen Chalfant (The Copenhagen Test / Law & Order)

This time, the person I’m letting talk is Kathleen Chalfant.

Kathleen is an actress who got her start in the theater, moved into on-camera acting through the wonderful world of soap operas, and has become a familiar face in films as well as on television, most recently on the Peacock series “The Copenhagen Test.”

In the series, Kathleen plays the elusive character known as St. George, and while I’m not the first person to use that particular adjective to describe her, it’s accurate enough that she agrees with it, too. During the course of our conversation about the series, I tried my best to discuss it in such a way as to avoid spoilers, which means that we danced around a lot of things, but suffice it to say that if you enjoy a good thriller, you should definitely give it a watch.

We talked about a wide variety of other projects from Kathleen’s back catalog as well, including her recurring presence on the various Law & Order series as several different characters, playing the mother of the titular character in Bob Roberts, her stints on The Guardian and Rescue Me, being directed by Bob Balaban and Stephen Frears, and a number of her past theater projects, including Jules Feiffer’s Hold Me!, Angels in America, and Wit.

That’s probably enough of an intro. It’s time to let Kathleen talk.