The actor and Instagram star, 66, is releasing a new essay collection, How Yall Doing?
Here, he divulges his own Southern charms.
My favorite book as a child
I used to love the bookmobile.
Leslie Jordan.Credit: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images
But I would walk to the mobile and sit and read.
My favorite wasBlack Beauty; it was so rich.
I read what were at that time considered “little girl” books.
William Morrow
The movie I watch over and over
The Coal Miner’s Daughter.
But inCoal Miner’s Daughter, which is Loretta Lynn’s story, the accents are dead-on.
They must not have used that footage.
I don’t go to the movies.
I don’t know why.
I read a lot.
But what amazed me about it was how well it portrayed gay people.
But I remember readingThe FemaleEunuch, by Germaine Greer, andThe Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan.
I found them in the library.
I was very inquisitive.
Sometimes I hearAllison Janney.
And I admire thatThe Connersjust kept going and going kudos to those kids for that.
The first album I bought with my own money
It wasHelp!, bythe Beatles.
[There] were little 45s, and I always liked the flip side of that record better.
What I would do is look for the popular albums and buy them for the B side.
Paul Revere & the Raiders was big for me too.
I always had all these crushes.
I couldn’t process it yet.
But it made me a good actor!
But I started following her and we’ve gone back and forth a little bit.
She has this wonderful family and involves them in the cooking.
I don’t even cook, really, but I love when they post pictures of the food.
