{"id":3780,"date":"2010-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/psi-in-politico-debra-messings-real-life-movie\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:26:51","slug":"psi-in-politico-debra-messings-real-life-movie","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/news\/psi-in-politico-debra-messings-real-life-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"PSI in Politico &#8211; Debra Messing&#8217;s Real-Life Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the podcast at Politico CLICK &#8211;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/click\/stories\/1003\/messings_reallife_movie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Debra Messing&#8217;s Real-Life Movie<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Actress Debra Messing spent Thursday becoming a Capitol Hill insider. \u201cI was a fish out of water,\u201d she confessed to the POLITICO Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying in front of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health to talk about AIDS funding, the \u201cWill &#038; Grace\u201d star and PSI Ambassador said, \u201cIt was like right out of a movie, I have to say. \u2026 It was thrilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what is more challenging \u2014 preparing for her next role or testifying? \u201cThere\u2019s no question that preparing for the subcommittee was far more challenging,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After testifying, she played lobbyist and talked to Reps. Nita Lowey, Henry Waxman, Jeff Flake, Maxine Waters and Eliot Engel. Which was a dream come true for the star. \u201cI am obsessed with punditry and watch all the political shows so this was a treat for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Messing, she\u2019s due to play an \u201cAnn Coulter-esque\u201d pundit in a new ABC show \u201cWright vs. Wrong.\u201d Has she heard from Coulter\u2019s camp yet? \u201cI would be thrilled to hear from her camp,\u201d she said, \u201cand thrilled to meet her.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"health-area":[],"capabilities-and-cross-cutting":[],"class_list":["post-3780","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"health-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/health-area?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"capabilities-and-cross-cutting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/capabilities-and-cross-cutting?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}