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\u201cI hate to pick favorites,\u201d\u00a0Elsbeth<\/a><\/em> showrunner Jonathan Tolins<\/a> told TV Insider of his Season 3 guest stars, but he can\u2019t help but feel a special connection to the upcoming Dianne Wiest<\/a> episode, \u201cAnd Then There Were Nuns.\u201d The executive producer tells TV Insider that he worked with Wiest 41 years ago on a production that inspired the trajectory of his career. To have Wiest on Elsbeth<\/em> is a full-circle moment and \u201ca special thrill.\u201d<\/p>\n Wiest guest stars in\u00a0Elsbeth<\/em> Season 3 Episode 7, airing on Thursday, November 20, on CBS<\/a>. In \u201cAnd Then There Were Nuns,\u201d a pop star\u2019s (Lindsey Normington) purchase of a failing convent turns divine real estate into a murder scene as Elsbeth takes on the Mother of all nuns (Weist). Meanwhile, Teddy (Ben Levi Ross<\/a>) digs into Alec Bloom\u2019s (Ivan Hernandez<\/a>) past for a feature he is working on.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have Dianne Wiest as the Mother Superior \u2026 she is astonishing in this part,\u201d Tolins told TV Insider in an interview conducted when the episode was being filmed. \u201cEveryone\u2019s just having such a great time. It\u2019s a thrill, a special thrill for me because in the summer of 1984, I was an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and one of my jobs was to do props for a production of Uncle Vanya<\/a><\/em> that featured the young Dianne Wiest as Sonya. That production was really important to me, and I always say it was kind of the thing that made me want to be a playwright. So, to be working with her now in this capacity is just a special thrill.\u201d<\/p>\n