Andrew Rannells, known for Girls and The Book of Mormon, discusses his new film Miss You, Love You, in which he plays a personal assistant helping Allison Janney's recently widowed character through her husband's death. He describes Janney as relentless on set, drawing on her West Wing experience, and reflects on enjoying being on the receiving end of that intensity for once.
Rannells also discusses his relationship with actor Tuc Watkins, which began as an onstage showmance during a Broadway revival of The Boys in the Band before becoming a real relationship a year later. He recounts coming out to his parents at 19, his father's initially awkward but later fully accepting response, and the death of his father from a coma shortly after that reconciliation.
He also touches on his years as a prolific child voice actor in cartoons like Pokémon, later saying he'd have preferred almost any other job to touring in Pokémon Live!, and on a chapter of his memoir describing being sexually assaulted as a teenager by a Catholic priest.
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