From The Advocate magazine in partnership with Glad, this is LGBTQ and A.

I'm Jeffrey Masters, hello, and today I'm talking to the great American actress, Holland Taylor.

You know Holland from so many things, like Hollywood on Netflix.

She's nominated for an Emmy for that role. You know her from The Practice and Legally Blonde. Also, Anne on Broadway, the one-woman

show about Governor Anne Richards that she wrote and starred in. And you can see her playing the

great leader in Bill and Ted Face the Music, the new movie with Keanu Reeves, that comes

out in September. Her career has been impressive, steady and full of characters that we

often don't see women play on screen. So today we talk about all of that, about being 77 and

busier than ever, about being in New York City during the

AIDS crisis, and really living a life not wanting to be defined by any labels. So let's hear it.

This is Holland Taylor.

Holland Taylor, welcome to the show, and congrats on the recent Emmy nomination for Hollywood.

Well, I fell into a pot of honey with that role.

Yeah, I agree.

You know, I love that character.

She was a genuinely nice person, for lack of better words.

She genuinely cared about the other actors in the show and helped to guide them to making good decisions in their careers.

In your own career, did you have anyone like that?

You know, I've lived for so long.

I can scarcely remember being mentored.

But, of course, I learned from everybody I encounter.

And I even consciously experienced myself observing someone and say,

...