Allison Janney

Allison Janney discusses her new Netflix movie 'Lou' and how she's up for joining a Marvel movie.

It was fun to shoot that scene and fun to know how to defend yourself in a scene like that. And I loved them both so much – I felt proud to share the screen with both of them. She and Ridley were both game for everything – I couldn’t have had better partners to be running around the marsh with. The dog was the most beautiful dog ever and he hit his mark more times than I did. I would love to be an action hero. Our fight trainer was Daniel Bernhardt, who had just come off working with Bob Odenkirk on “Nobody.” I was doing it three hours a day and I came to love it. “And to be a lead in a movie at 62 and an action hero? After getting the peart, there was a time where I was like, “How can I get out of this?” But I was glad I didn’t. What I did learn for this film was to fight hand-to-hand combat. And I was an athlete. And then I met Anna who was like, “Are you ready to get down and dirty with me?” And I was. “Or I’ll think they’re about to talk about ‘Mom’ and they saw me in ‘A View from the Bridge’ on Broadway.