Sweet Child Of Time: Recaps Of Time Related TV Shows And Movies · Steve Barnes hosts; cohosts James McCollum, and Lindsey Dunn

Songs About Time With Sarah Ellis

October 15, 2025·1 hr 19 min·5 clips

Sarah links Pink Floyd’s “Time” to a Midtown bank job where employees were being fired and crying at their desks.

1. Sweet Child Of Time: Recaps Of Time Related TV Shows And Movies turns into a conversation about time-related songs, led by host Steve Barnes and guest Sarah Ellis. 2. Steve Barnes is the host, and Sarah Ellis is an actress and first-time podcast guest whose acting credits and music picks drive the discussion. 3. The episode asks what songs about time mean to Sarah Ellis, then uses Pink Floyd’s “Time” as the shared starting point. 4. Sarah says her acting interest began in fifth grade after moving from Maryland to Belgium and watching My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. 5. She connects that film to singing “Just You Wait, Henry Higgins” as a solo in school and to wanting a profession that looked fun. 6. At George Mason University, Sarah majored in theater, performed in Merrily We Roll Along, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Into the Woods, and says she practiced constantly. 7. After graduating in 2001, she booked a Harris Teeter commercial through Carlin Davis Casting in Falls Church, then had to turn it down for a trip to see her grandmother. 8. Sarah describes later auditions in New York and Washington, DC, including a Shakespeare monologue, the league auditions in DC, and an independent film called Gas Station. 9. She says she earned her SAG card in 2003 through industrial films, which led to work on HBO’s K Street in Washington, DC. 10. On K Street, Sarah was originally hired as a recurring extra, met Mary Matalin and James Carville, and got upgraded a few times before one of her lines was cut in the aired episode. 11. Sarah says she was credited on K Street as “the receptionist,” even when the on-air moment did not match what she had filmed. 12. She recalls writing, directing, and starring in Grace This Way, a YouTube web series about recovery and sobriety that mapped each episode to a step in the 12-step process. 13. She also talks about The Scarlet Letters, filmed in Richmond in 2006, where she played Tanya, a tattoo artist seeking revenge after her younger sister is drugged and raped. 14. Sarah says the producers of The Scarlet Letters intended each episode to represent one of the seven deadly sins, and that there was debate about whether her episode was wrath or lust. 15. She describes being cast on America’s Most Wanted in a role she calls one of the “classic roles” for women, then jokes through the limited list of parts such as hooker, mom, ingenue, teacher, and wife. 16. Her America’s Most Wanted scene included implied sex, which she watched later with coworkers at a downtown Washington, DC temp job, and she says that screening helped her get hired full time. 17. Sarah says Louis C.K. was professional on the set of Louis, where she played a teacher with one breast bigger than the other in an empty classroom. 18. She notes that the role on Louis produced small residual checks for years, but that they stopped after later controversy reduced reruns. 19. People interested in acting credits, stage-to-screen stories, and behind-the-scenes TV work will get the most from this episode. 20. People wanting a tightly focused music episode with no acting digressions may skip it.

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