Netflix Allison Janney is shy, and she has no interest in ever being president.
The first part surprises people. The second is now professionally inconvenient because Janney has spent the better part of two decades walking the corridors of a fictional Washington, D.C., and finally has taken the seat behind the Oval Office desk. In “The Diplomat,” Debora Cahn’s political thriller on Netflix, Janney’s Grace Penn has ascended from vice president to commander in chief, a turn the actor swears she did not see coming. “I didn’t know until I read the last page of a script,” Janney tells Variety. “I was sitting right here in my kitchen and turned the page and saw it, and it just freaked me out. I haven’t had that kind of reaction to a script before, ever.”
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