ANDELMAN: Are you very political?
WUHL: No.
ANDELMAN: You’re not.
WUHL: No. But I believe in voting for your friends in anything, whether it’s the Oscars, the President, your high school buddy running for junior class president. Why not vote for your friends?
ANDELMAN: Another actress who you started with or started with you, Sandra Oh, of course now a very big star on “Grey’s Anatomy” and made a name for herself though first as your secretary on “Arli$.” She won the Academy Award, of course. How much credit can you take for her success?
WUHL: She did not win.
ANDELMAN: Did she not win?
WUHL: No, no.
ANDELMAN: My apology. She was nominated.
WUHL: No, she wasn’t.
ANDELMAN: She wasn’t even nominated?
WUHL: No.
ANDELMAN: She deserved it. Anyway, I’m embarrassed. How much credit, nonetheless, can you take for her success?
WUHL: I gave her a job.
ANDELMAN: There you go.
WUHL: I just gave her a job.
ANDELMAN: It all came from there.
WUHL: Well, I had seen her work. I had seen her do a movie called Double Happiness from Toronto, where she’s from, and I thought she was really good in that. The part came down to two actresses. It came down to her and a girl named Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls).
ANDELMAN: Oh, really?
WUHL: Yes, and either one would have been great. I just took a flyer on Sandra, and I’m not surprised at all at the huge success of both of them.
ANDELMAN: Very different actresses.
WUHL: They’re both terrific. I mean, those are two terrific actresses.
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