On The Late Show, Ann Dowd is the anti-Aunt Lydia in her delightful first-ever late-night appearance
Ann Dowd may not yet be as meme-worthy as “character actress Margo Martindale,” but she and Martindale undoubtedly get sent a lot of the “deceptively terrifying lady who looks like your third grade teacher” scripts. On The Leftovers and The Handmaid’s Tale, Dowd has at least nosed into a tie with The Americans and Justified scene-stealer Martindale as woman you do not want to fuck with, ever. So it was especially lovely—not to say something of a relief for those traumatized by Aunt Lydia’s cattle prod and eye work—to see the Emmy-winner so genuinely moved by The Late Show audience’s effusive applause on what she confessed to host Stephen Colbert was her very first late-night interview.
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