In preparing to interview Allison Janney, it is not hard to work yourself into a bit of a tizzy. Almost every role Janney takes on is a woman of extreme authority and conviction, from her career-making turn as press secretary C.J. Cregg on The West Wing, where she kept both the media and the White House staff in line, to repressed housewife Margaret Scully in period drama Masters of Sex, whose desire for self-awareness overrides the strongest sense of decorum. Even in the Chuck Lorre-produced multi-cam sitcom Mom, where she played recovering addict Bonnie, Janney takes no prisoners. For each
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