Call Me Kat‘s winter premiere, “Call Me Philliam,” welcomes comedy legend Vicki Lawrence, who steps in to play Phil’s (the late Leslie Jordan) mom, and Fox has unveiled a number of sneak peek pictures from the installment airing on Thursday, January 5.
While no episode logline is out there at the moment, the photographs supply some perception into Lawrence’s function and the way she’ll slot in with the remainder of the forged members together with Mayim Bialik together with Swoosie Kurtz, Kyla Pratt, Cheyenne Jackson, and Julian Gant. Ahead of the winter finale episode, “Call Me Chrismukkah,” which aired December 8, Bialik instructed TV Insider what followers would possibly have the ability to anticipate from Lawrence’s look.
“She’s a legendary icon and literally one of the three women I credit with my training as a comedian. Her, Lucille Ball, and Carol Burnett were kind of my big three growing up,” Bialik mused. As for Lawrence’s function as Phil’s mom, the actress made it clear, “we don’t want to try and replicate Phil, because you can’t. Just like Leslie Jordan, there is no replicating that character or person. But we wanted someone who had enough of the feel-good aspects of Leslie’s character and enough of that sharpness and fun Leslie brought to his character. ”
“She is her own woman,” Bialik continued. “We age her up, but she’s not the destitute woman that sometimes Phil’s character would describe her.” While Lawrence is roughly 5 years older than Leslie Jordan was when he died earlier this 12 months, the pair have a particular connection as they beforehand costarred in Fox’s different comedy collection The Cool Kids alongside David Alan Grier and Martin Mull.
While we await the arrival of Call Me Kat‘s episode, “Call Me Philliam,” get a peek at Lawrence’s look with the photographs beneath, and keep tuned for the present’s return within the first week of 2023 on Fox.
Call Me Kat, Season 3, Returns Thursday, January 5, 2023, 9:30/8:30c, Fox