Backstage Life With Zoe Lister-Jones on ‘Life In Pieces’

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Photo Source: Photographs courtesy Zoe Lister-Jones

The hit CBS family sitcom about three siblings, their spouses, and their parents features Zoe Lister-Jones and Colin Hanks as a married couple with a new infant at home. When she’s not raising a baby onscreen, Lister-Jones is snapping photos off, and shares a few of her favorites from the first season.

I’m not a mom, but I play one on TV. At first I was freaked as heck by holding babies all the dang time but Colin Hanks, the baby whisperer, has taught me the tricks of the trade. Biggest trick? Trade Colin baby-holding duties.

Tommy Sadoski had to wear makeup on an episode and didn’t have time to take it off before our table read. No one acknowledged it and it will forever be my favorite table read of all table reads. Also, I’ve never said “table read” this many times in a sentence.

It’s such a dream to work with Dianne Wiest. She is an icon of stage and screen, and I am so humbled to now call her a friend.

Helen Hunt directed an episode this season, which was thrilling. I am such a fan of hers and to get to work/hang with her was fab. Also, big ups to female directors!

We have live Twitter parties on Thursday nights, when we watch the episodes together and tweet to our fans. On this particular night, I had to shoot in this wedding dress and didn’t have time to change before the Twitter party. (Actually I did, but I didn’t want to.)

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