Parker Posey could make anybody snicker, however she will be able to't at all times clarify why.

Recalling her two-episode arc on Will & Grace as Dorleen, Jack McFarland's (Sean Hayes) love-hungry flooring supervisor at Barney's, the indie queen mentioned determining find out how to match into the manic tempo of sitcom capturing was "like faucet dancing."

Posey informed Lisa Kudrow in a latest episode of Variety's Actors on Actors series that "actually having to make that step" into the regimented sitcom mould wasn't solely difficult, however complicated.

"I’d say stuff like on Will & Grace and folks would snicker, and I'd be like, 'I don't get it,'" the Occasion Woman star admitted.

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"What, you imply like, what are they laughing at?" the Buddies star requested Posey, who defined, "I didn't assume it was humorous. Yeah, like, 'What are you laughing at?'"

Kudrow playfully ribbed, "Was it a joke that they’d written?" As a result of "that occurs generally." However Posey managed to elaborate on her preliminary misgivings about Dorleen, who continues to be a fan-favorite facet character.

"I take it significantly, and then you definitely go, 'Oh, properly, that was type of humorous,' after which they throw jokes at you as you're doing it, as a result of everybody else has been doing it for a number of years," she defined. "Then you definitely're referred to as in, and also you're like, 'Hey, Megan Mullally'… and Sean Hayes, and also you're simply watching this entire different vaudeville, you recognize?"

Posey was a longtime impartial movie star by the point the function of Dorleen got here throughout her desk in 2001. She'd gained important discover for her offbeat method to line supply and idiosyncratic appearing fashion in movies by indie luminaries like Richard Linklater, Hal Hartley, Gregg Araki, and Jill Sprecher, the latter of whom directed Posey and Kudrow collectively within the 1997 ode to office ennui, Clockwatchers.

However Posey had little or no expertise appearing for the small display screen. Nonetheless, her deadpan banter with Hayes and escalating comedy of errors reverse Eric McCormack throughout two episodes of the present's fourth season rank among the many collection' most memorable visitor appearances, alongside Cher, Madonna, and fellow indie queen Chloë Sevigny.

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The Baltimore-born actress has currently gained a number of the finest notices of her profession for her efficiency in one other TV collection: Mike White's drama anthology The White Lotus. Posey performed Victoria Ratliff, the barbiturate-ridden, endlessly meme-able matriarch of a rich North Carolina household on the recently-concluded third season.

When requested who she'd deliver again for a theoretical White Lotus: All Stars season, Posey informed Leisure Weekly in Might, "All of us. However [Jennifer Coolidge's] Tanya, in fact."

Watch Posey's full dialog with Kudrow above.

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