Wendi McLendon-Covey on St. Denis Medical, The Goldbergs, and Life with Cats

St. Denis Medical: A New Role

• 🎭 Wendi McLendon-Covey discusses her role as Joyce in "St. Denis Medical," highlighting it as a complete opposite to her previous character, Beverly Goldberg.
• 💡 Joyce is described as "no nonsense," an "oddball," and a departure from the "cuddly and mushy" Beverly, offering a fresh challenge.
• 🎯 Joyce is characterized in three words: Stoic, Driven, Odd, with a Type A personality.

Life and Personal Reflections

• 🐈 Wendi admits to having eight cats, humorously stating that nine would be "insane," and jokes about her cats complaining about the "little voices" she uses with them.
• ☕ She prefers coffee over tea and is a night owl rather than an early bird.
• 🏖️ A beach vacation is her preference over a mountain escape.
• 🍪 Her one food indulgence is chocolate chip cookies, for which she'd push her own parents aside.

Career Insights and Advice

• 🎤 McLendon-Covey shares that the main lesson in acting is to "shut up and listen" to the other person to react authentically.
• 🎬 She advises her 25-year-old self that a producer calling after finding her size card is likely a "perve" and not a genuine opportunity.
• 🎭 She has accepted roles for the paycheck but notes they often don't move the needle or pay well.
• 😅 Her worst audition involved her self-awareness of sucking and questioning why they wanted her to continue.
• 📺 She enjoys watching "I Love Lucy" on Pluto to fall asleep.

Humor and Hollywood

• 😂 She recounts laughing until she cried at a man online who looked like a "thumb" and had "teeth like a laboo," attempting to prove a point.
• 💍 The secret to a successful Hollywood marriage, according to her, is "don't live in Hollywood" and having a spouse not in the business.
• 🌎 She believes fame can disappear quickly and emphasizes the importance of being grateful and keeping your head down.
• 🐼 If she could swap lives with anyone, she'd want to be "panda adjacent," specifically a panda mover.
• 🎭 If not acting, she'd be a veterinarian or a casting director.
• 💰 Her three wishes include a million more wishes, fixing poverty and disease, and fulfilling the biblical saying of the last becoming first.
• 🤣 Her life story comedy would be titled "The Overexplainer."
• 🚫 She has never stolen from set, though she admits to wearing a bra home from costumes and still having it.
• 🍳 Her guilty pleasures include binging TV while folding laundry and using Instacart for groceries.
• 💔 What scares her most is having to live without her husband, Craig.