When Pamela Adlon meets her daughters’ middle-school-aged friends, she asks them nicely not to watch Californication, the show she’s starred in for the past five seasons.

“I say, ‘I’d appreciate if you don’t watch my show and you don’t Google me,’ ” she tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross.

But Adlon, who plays the brash, unapologetic, sexually charged Marcy Runkle on the Showtime series, says she knows that’s not going to stop anyone. (FULL INTERVIEW: Terry Gross, Fresh Air – NPR)