These six actresses at the absolute top of their game may have recently found themselves in the zeitgeist for their dramatic work, but there was no shortage of levity when they sat down for THR ’s Drama Actress Roundtable .
Kathy Bates ( Matlock ), Cristin Milioti ( The Penguin and Black Mirror ), Helen Mirren ( 1922 and Mobland ), Niecy Nash-Betts ( Grotesquerie ), Parker Posey ( The White Lotus ) and Keri Russell ( The Diplomat ) swapped ware stories for an hour — talking about the worst advice they’ve gotten over the course of their careers, seeing too many “beautiful but she doesn’t know it” parts in scripts and, for Bates and Posey, relishing in their recent returns to the center of attention. “The memes, the excitement of my friends and family, it’s be