Catching up with Laura Benanti

[Bob Jersey]

Her occasional "manic Melania" persona on the Late Show drew enough hatred to drive her back to the relative safety of her native NJ... but the onetime high-school musical* star's busy as ****, turning down a role in "Cruel Intentions," but stacking up TV and film roles, the latest of which, in "super-raunchy comedy" No Hard Feelings, reuniting her with onetime B'way co-star Matty Broderick, is in theaters now...

https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2023/06/njs-laura-benanti-on-no-hard-feelings-the-gilded-age-and-the-melania-impression-that-made-her-leave-ny.html (link)

*a real one, not on a D!sney platform...

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