Actor Julianne Nicholson talks about balancing grief with humor on her show, Paradise. She shares with Rachel an early memory ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) JULIANNE NICHOLSON: It is so fun to have that, because I have to work hard now for what I do, that it's not always, like, grief 'cause also, it's like ...

But behind the scenes, it’s Samatha Redmond (Julianne Nicholson) who is the real power ... which I don’t generally like to do because I don’t like to be away from home for too long.

Julianne Nicholson: When I was growing up, my mom would use this cream – I think you can still buy it. It's a cream called Skin Trip. It's like coconut cream, very hippy-dippy. We started using ...