Holland Taylor's turn in 'Brothers' is just another notch in her sexy, scene-stealing career

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Set us as preferred “The most seductive thing you can do,” says Holland Taylor, “is simply look at a person.That’s quite sufficient.”She is looking at me when she says this, her consonants crisp and her blue eyes calm as she considers a question about how she manages to bring a sense of sexual vitality to every role she has played, up to and including Matthew McConaughey’s mother in the Apple TV meta-comedy “Brothers,” which ends its first season on Wednesday.Taylor is known for playing commanding women — erect, articulate and immaculately put together.

But beneath all that inevitably roil forces other than authority.Humor certainly — Taylor is queen of the raised eyebrow — and something more.

Straight or gay, comedy or drama, as mother, boss, judge or next door neighbor, her characters are radiantly sexual beings.David E.

Kelley saw it in “One Fine Day,” in which Taylor plays Michelle Pfeiffer’s mother; after watching Taylor, then 52, interact with co-star George Clooney, he cast her in “The Practice.” With her combination of judicial competence and frank sexuality, Judge Roberta Kittleson allowed Taylor to do what she does best — steal every scene she’s in, and, in 1999, win a supporting actress Emmy over two of her co-stars.The actors, who previously starred together in ‘True Detective,’ join forces again, playing versions of themselves and running with the rumor that they might be related.A few years later, her turn as the billionaire “I was a lesbian in 1974” Peggy Peabody in “The L Word” became instantly iconic.In “Two and a Half Men,” Charlie (Charlie Sheen) and Alan (Jon Cryer) may have referenced the exploits of their perfectly coiffed mother Evelyn (Taylor) for cringe-laughs, but Evelyn was never bothered.

Long before Hollywood finally began to accept that women ...