THR pulls our drama actresses aside for some "Off Script" moments ahead of their THR Roundtable interview. Find out what Parker Posey needs to have in her trailer and why Kathy Bates wants to be a sniper! Or find out what Cristin Milioti would do as president and what made Niecy Nash-Betts want to become an actor.
00:00Things that I need in my trailer, cozy shoes and a good Bluetooth speaker.
00:16I like a heating pad and I like my tea.
00:19My needlepoint, I like to needlepoint and travel with my pillow.
00:23I am doing a lot of heavy work on the series Grotesquerie.
00:27So when I leave set and go into my trailer, the thing that puts the battery in my bag, that gives me the recharge I need, is my spouse.
00:36I said what I said.
00:38The most basic trailer there is.
00:40Like, you know, some place to change your clothes, go to the bathroom if you need to.
00:45But I like really super minimal.
00:47I'm like, come on, let's get going. I want to get out of here and get home.
00:50I don't spend time in my trailer, honestly, when I'm on set.
00:53I like to spend time on set.
00:55But I'll tell you one thing I do do, which is very embarrassing.
00:58I always take a teddy bear with me.
01:00Not on set, but to the hotel, because I'm always staying in hotels.
01:04It's not actually a teddy bear, it's a pig.
01:06It's a pink pig that I go to bed with.
01:09I have a wonderful Quixote trailer and one end is a sitting area with one of those gas fireplaces.
01:18And the other is with a makeup chair and, you know, all of this.
01:23I mean, I'm just so excited every day. It's unbelievable.
01:26I think I'd like to be a tailor or be in fashion somewhere.
01:31I'd like to make clothes. I'd like to be around that.
01:34I'd be a hairdresser. I wouldn't, you know, wash it or blow dried. I'd cut it.
01:40Oh, I'd like to be a sniper.
01:42Well, the reason I said that is because Jenny Snyder-Ehrman, who created Matlock,
01:48she created Maddie to be a sniper.
01:50She was always going to be pointed in the right direction and then she would solve it.
01:55I would love to train Belgian Malinois dogs for the military.
02:01I would be the president so I could just fix some stuff real quick
02:06and get some stuff in order in the way that it should be and then I'd clock out.
02:10One very productive day.
02:11The television performance that made me want to become an actor was when I was five years old.
02:17I was watching television with my grandmother.
02:19I saw the most gorgeous black woman that I had ever seen in my little five years of living.
02:24She had on a long red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies.
02:28And I said, Grandmama, who is that?
02:31She said, baby, that's Lola Falana.
02:34And I felt like in that moment my destiny was stamped on the canvas of my imagination.
02:39I look at my grandmother and I say, that's what I want to be.
02:43I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV. And I am.
02:48Frances McDormand in Fargo and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill and Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns.
02:55Gosh, the first name that popped into my mind was Joanne Woodward.
02:58I remember seeing her in films years ago, Three Faces of Eve and also Shirley MacLaine.
03:04She was in Children's Hour with Audrey Hepburn. And I remember watching her in that.
03:10And Vivian Lee in Streetcar Named Desire with Brando.
03:15You know, I actually love Kathy Bates. I love her.
03:19She's just one of those people that you instantly believe. When she cries, it makes you cry.
03:24I think she's like a big frontrunner for me.
03:27You know, I love Shirley MacLaine in Sweet Charity. And now that I have her hair, I think that's why I thought of it.
03:35I loved that movie. I used to watch it on TV.
03:37You won't believe this, but I grew up with no television. And I didn't watch movies.
03:42But the film that I saw that made me want to become an actress or understand the possibilities of film was a film called L'Aventura by an Italian director called Antonioni.
03:55And for a long time, to this day actually, I want to be an Italian actress. I really want to be Anna Magnani.
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