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Connie Britton and Jean Smart exclusively talk about Dirty John

Funnily enough they hate podcasts!
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In their long careers, Connie Britton and Jean Smart have both appeared on popular sitcoms and revered dramas, portrayed Southern women, played real people, and generally been fortunate not to be relegated to stereotypical wife and girlfriend roles.

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One thing the women have never done: worked together. (Although they did both appear in Season 5 of 24.)

The dynamic duo right this wrong with Dirty John, an eight-part adaptation of the podcast of the same name.

The series, which comes to Netflix on Thurs., Feb. 14, will delve even more deeply into the twisted story of the duping of Orange County interior designer Debra Newell (Britton) by sophisticated con man John Meehan (Eric Bana). (Smart plays Newell’s mother, Arlane Hart.)

WHO sat down with Smart, 67, and Britton, 51, to get the scoop on the show and learn how these two women crafted such enviable careers.

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Although this is your first time working together, had you been fans of each other previously?
CONNIE BRITTON: This is awkward. You don’t have to answer because you probably don’t really even know.

JEAN SMART: No, no, but it’s one of those things where you constantly see people, you think, “Why do I know them? Have I worked with them?” I mean, I’ve seen her in a million things. I remember watching her, obviously, on 24 because I was on 24, because it’s all about me.

As it should be.

SMART: And I thought that she was so fabulous and so gorgeous and so perfect to play [Kiefer Sutherland’s] love interest, even though he broke her heart.

BRITTON: He just broke my heart. He just left me in the dust. In the 24 dust. But here’s how it can go full circle. Designing Women [in which Smart starred] – I remember exactly where I was …

SMART: She was in grade school.

BRITTON: I was home from college, and acting had always been my dream, but I thought,
“Now I’m going to do something serious and grown-up.” Like, real people don’t become actors.

For their full exclusive interview, grab the new issue of WHO.

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