Patti LuPone’s Unexpected Secret for Palm Royale

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Patti LuPone reveals how she trained her yodel to bring Palm Beach powerhouse Marjorie Merriweather Post to life in Palm Royale. Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV.

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00:00Yodel-a-dee-yodel-a-dee-yodel-a-dee-o

00:02Like that.

00:03I can't believe I just yodeled.

00:05It's in my body now.

00:07I'm just a yodeler.

00:08Who wants to hear me yodel?

00:12Oh, look at my hat.

00:13I forgot my hat was like sparkles.

00:15Oh, and I have a whip.

00:17That's right, I have a whip.

00:18I had a whip.

00:19This is the first time I've yodeled with a whip.

00:21Is it the first time I've had a whip in my hand?

00:23Yep, and it's the first time I've yodeled.

00:26I wanna be a cowboy sweetheart.

00:30When Abe told me that I would be singing

00:31I Wanna Be a Cowboy Sweetheart,

00:33I was so thrilled,

00:34and I laughed my head off when I heard the number.

00:36Patsy Montana wrote it and yodeled it

00:39for her entire career, brilliantly, by the way.

00:41I didn't really know how to yodel,

00:43and I didn't have a teacher, a yodeling teacher,

00:47but what I did was I had to imitate

00:49Patsy Montana's intervals, her yodel.

00:52It was pretty hard.

00:53First I was singing it,

00:54and then I finally figured out how to yodel.

00:56And what's the yodel?

00:57I don't know.

00:57It's just, I can't even describe it to you.

01:00It's sort of like you're jumping notes.

01:01That's all you're doing.

01:05Yodeladio, yodeladio, like that.

01:08You're just jumping notes.

01:09Yodeladio, yodeladio, yodeladio, yodeladio.

01:17Woo!

01:18Yes!

01:19Yes!

01:19You

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