With the series set to return this Thursday at 10 p.m.
They each feel like a little film to me.
Id say Sam is kind of more… shes able to experience more things.
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Theres a lot of changes happening with her kids that are developmentally normal.
Sams mother Phyllis (played by Celia Imrie) was so memorable in season 1.
Whats happening with her this year?Shes definitely… youll see.
[Laughs] She doesnt care.
Shes like, I dont care about that.
Im not in that!
It goes in the garbage.
I just love them all so much.
Tell me about your approach to directing the season.I never want to waste a frame.
I always look and see what Ive got.
So I have all these beautiful, classic cars in the show, and thats part of it.
Thats part of the fabric of what youre looking at.
And just, like, any place I could go, I went.
I wanted to shoot atMusso and Frank I wanted it so badly.
And I was able to!
I mean, its exactly what Im saying with my show.
In my show, Im saying it takes a village.
Thats a big part of it.
Every episode of the series always feels so intimate and personal, and yet Louis C.K.
is your co-writer on all these episodes.
How is it working with him on such personal material?
This is too personal you cant watch this.
But then Im like, hey dummy, youre about to show this to the whole world.
Its a very rich working environment.
I mean, I was already thinking about it when we were shooting scenes in the kitchen duringthisseason.
I was like, Oh my God,thathas to happen.
That has to happen!
Im like, theres the existential question.
Is it getting harder to separate Pamela Adlon from Samantha Fox?
Are you starting to not know where one ends and the other begins?Sam is like…
I mean, shes an extension of me, but no.
I mean, yes and no.
Its like, yeah, its me, but shes not really me.
It feels like its somebody else, but she is definitely me.
She lives inside of me.
I know your daughters have a fair amount of input on the show.
I think they appreciate that we have a voice in this show.
And I cant talk them out of anything.
Or if they recognize something thats them, they go, Thats me!
Im like, okay.
