Alanna Ubach Keeps Reinventing the Art of Stealing a Scene
Alanna Ubach has been stealing our cinema and television hearts since the 1990s, slipping between comedy, drama, animation and full character-actress transformation without ever losing her unmistakable spark.
For one generation, she is the scene-stealing performer from Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, The Brady Bunch Movie and Legally Blonde. For another, she is Mamá Imelda in Coco, Suze Howard in Euphoria or Susan Bennett in Ted. Different decades, different genres, same pure talent.
Ubach is a defining example of an artist evolving with the generations, moving from broad comedy to bruising drama, voice work and beautifully strange supporting roles while remaining one of the most reliable scene-stealers working today.
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Unsung, unfiltered and now uncensored: we speak your name, Miss Alanna Ubach.
Now she joins Chris Hardwick on his new podcast, I Think You’re Overthinking It, for the kind of long-form conversation that lets a true working actor dig into the craft behind all those unforgettable turns.
Hardwick chats with Ubach about the freedom of character acting, the power of saying yes to opportunity and the discipline required to keep performing when distraction threatens to pull a scene apart.
The pair also wander into wonderfully specific Gen X territory, remembering the ritual of renting horror movies from the video store and the strange little risks that came with choosing a tape based almost entirely on its box art.
Inside Alanna Ubach and Chris Hardwick’s Candid Conversation
Alanna Ubach and Chris Hardwick discuss character acting, creative instinct and the Gen X ritual of renting horror movies from the video store. Credit: Chris Hardwick/YouTube.
With Ubach in the chair, the discussion becomes a celebration of staying adaptable, trusting instinct and finding freedom inside characters nobody else could play quite the same way.
Watch Alanna Ubach on I Think You’re Overthinking It
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