Lisa Ann Walter is busy cooking dinner as we talk on the phone. “Hang on one second — I wanna flip my rigatoni into the pot, and I don’t wanna talk over it!” the “Abbott Ele…
“Hang on one second — I wanna flip my rigatoni into the pot, and I don’t wanna talk over it!” the “” actor laughs in the middle of answering a question. “I’m having people over from the cast tomorrow, and some of the crew. Quinta, if she gets back in time from New York, will come over, and I promised her meatballs. Baked pasta, meatballs and sausage.”
“She also sits in a less aware way than Lisa sits [in public],” Walter says. “She sits like I sit at home: a leg up, or leg open. Leaning forward without worrying about if she has her back straight. Almost the opposite of Barbara Howard [played by Sheryl Lee Ralph]. She rests her hand in her head. She’s all about being comfortable. She doesn’t mind taking up space.”
“The other piece that was really important was the kitchen,” she adds, “because Melissa cooks and I cook. I needed to know where everything was. It’s really important as an actor. You cannot go into a kitchen and not know what’s in the drawers and not know where you stand as the cook in that room. From left to right: Chris Perfetti as Jacob Hill, Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues and Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa SchemmentiIn the Season 2 premiere, Melissa learns that after years of teaching the second grade, she’ll be having her class combined with a third grade class due to the teacher shortage that’s affecting Abbott Elementary . Episode 3, titled “Story Samurai,” follows her through that struggle.
Knowing what she knows about how normal it is to run a packed classroom, Walter felt protective of her character and wanted to place more emphasis on the fact that Melissa was being forced to teach two sets of curriculum at once.
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