Summary
Kathryn Hahnis one of the most versatile actresses working today.
It seems like she should be the last person giving anyone guidance.
It’s so well deserved.
It’s always so humbling, and you’re always like, Really?
when a random stranger says they can relate on a deep level with something that you’ve done.
So, yeah, anyway, that’s a long-winded answer to your congratulations.
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No, I love it!
That leads really well into my first question because itisso raw and so real.
I interviewed Tanzyn Crawford, who I love, a couple of months ago.
I love her so much.
Boy, did we luck out with that human being.
you’ve got the option to just surrender.
I just want to hear anything you might share about filming that.
I feel like it’s probably not every day you get to just yell at a teenager for work.
So much of this show was so blurred lines.
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When I read it, I was laughing so hard.
There was a point where I thought, Ahh, how is this gonna happen?
How am I gonna pull this off in a realistic way?
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But that was so brief.
I just knew exactly what it was gonna do.
I knew how it was gonna land.
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I knew how we could pull it off.
There was no fear.
She knew that thebothof us could, I think, pull it off.
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Again, just looking at her eyeballs she was so freaking good and maddening.
Yeah, that was a satisfying scene.
But then they would say cut, and we would just be sobbing with laughter.
I still use quotes from that scene.
She was so maddening she really, really teed it up.
Oh my god thats so astute.
I totally thought the same thing.
I love that you did!
That was one of my questions.
I was like, Is that a parallel that you sort of recognized?
I didnt really until we were, like, midway through it.
I just felt surrounded with such talent and such kindness.I mean, this group is amazing.
I love Tanzyn, and I love Quentin [Plair] so much.
He was so good.
AndPrivate Life that experience, which had been like four years before they’re very different women.
Its there it’s possible for you to mourn it.
She says, All it’s possible for you to do is salute it from the shore.
And I just love that line, and I never thought about that.
I never had that kind of regret or what if?
Actually, I did.
It makes you think.
Everything about the show just makes you think so deeply.
I think its because of these letters at the core.
You know, in animation, you’re not doing a voiceover you’re acting.
You’re in a booth by yourself with the director you’re not really acting with the other people.
So it’s its own skill.
It’s really fun.
AndI love doing animation.
I love the artists.
I’m just in awe that it can happen.
Its like, What?!
[Laughs] It always feels like magic.
It felt like we were just honoring Cheryl.
And I was in it from the scene.
It just had a different tenor to it.
So I’m so grateful to Liz for hearing that and using those.
But for the most part, I think they were done in the trailer.
I know you could’t say much, obviously.
I know, I know!
I mean, she won’t take it.
I don’t think there’s anything that one can even say.
She would politely nod, and then you would never be seen again.
Oh, that’s so fair.
I mean, you shot these two projects within a few months of each other.
What a jarring turn.
[Laughs] Im like, Did Clare prepare me for the witch?
It feels like we’re getting away with murder with what we’re being able to do.
I just love her voice.
Is Directing in Kathryn Hahns Future?
You’ve played a few writers, and youve started executive producing, too, which is really cool.
Would you ever want to branch out into writing or directing as well?
Yeah, of course!
Of course, I would.
But I feel like those things it has to come from the bottom.
I think it needs to be something that Ihaveto do from the guts of it and from the beginning.
And same thing with writing.
I definitely wouldnt want to direct unless it was no question that I had to.
I love my job so much.
And then when a scene happens and it just sings?
I feel so blessed.
I just feel crazy, crazy blessed.
Im gonna cry.
There wereso many incredible performances this year.
Well, I’m curious to know what some of your favorites are.
And then, as a follow-up, is one of them Rachel Weisz inDead Ringers?
Because I’m a fellow fan, and I have to know.
[Gasps] Uhh, yes.
She’s incredible inDead Ringers.
My friend Karyn Kusama directed one of the episodes, and I was like, What?
I just wanted to know everything about it.
That was one of the most amazing twin performances.
But yeah, Rachel was…whew.
There were so many this year.
Give me some shows that came out because my brain is just…
Swarmcame out.
Dominique [Fishback]?
I loved everyone inThe Bear.
Oh, I loveThe Bear.
The Chicago of it all, too?
I love Elizabeth Debicki inThe Crown.
Really, really tender and really vulnerable and also kind of manipulative in all sorts of ways.
There are so many.
Jessica Chastain was incredible.
I mean,forget it.
It was such a pleasure working with her.
[White Lotus] is just delish.
Incredible women’s performances all across the board.
Tiny Beautiful Thingsis available to stream on Hulu.
