Allison Janney

Janney discusses her two, very different, current roles: Bonny Plunkett on the CBS sitcom Mom and Margaret Scully on the Showtime drama Masters of Sex, in an interview with PBS.

It was so funny. My mother, when I told her I was doing this way back before it came out, she couldn’t even – she was just mortified by the title. Her friends were saying, “What’s your daughter up to in there?” “Oh, she’s doing this lovely show for CBS called Mom and then she’s doing this other show that’s called – well, it’s with Beau Bridges.”