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It's been 15 years since Kristen Wiig and Rose Byrne starred in 'Bridesmaids.' Kristen and Rose reunite to discuss everything from meeting for the first time to their latest projects 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' and 'Palm Royale.'
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00:00I would love you like pick your genre and be like that's what I want to go to
00:03space take me to space. Wait you mean in real life? No, in the movies, in the movies, do you
00:08want to go to real life?
00:08I was like I do not want to go to space in real life. No, no, no, no. I would
00:11love to be like we've got for the
00:13you know what I mean like oh they're coming and like like it's gonna give me
00:20the job. Oh they're coming and I'm typing.
00:22Rose?
00:23What? Oh, what?
00:24Rose are you there?
00:25Who's that?
00:26It's Kristen!
00:28Kristen who? Oh my god! What are you doing here?
00:33I just happened to be walking by.
00:34It's so crazy. I just got out of here and made it. I don't know why I'm here. It's just
00:37sitting here.
00:38And this crew showed up.
00:40Sometimes I come to this hotel, I get ready and I walk around hoping that I run into something.
00:44Wow, and we went to sleep.
00:50I mean I knew of this incredible angel of a human being.
00:56Because I remember you had just done Get Him to the Greek which Judd Apatow had also produced.
01:02I think that's how we met and then you came in and we like read together.
01:06Yeah, we came. I remember very clearly I came in and read with you and Paul.
01:09Yep.
01:10We did a little bit of improv. I was so nervous. I am such a fan of the icon that
01:16is Kristen Wiig.
01:17No one greater. Stop it, stop it.
01:19I'm gonna be embarrassing you a lot.
01:21Please don't.
01:23I remember the first time I saw her on Saturday Night Live and I was like, oh goodness me, this
01:28lady's magical.
01:30She's a magical lady. So then when I went in and read I was just real nervous.
01:34Well you couldn't tell. It was so fun.
01:36I was really nervous and Kristen was just cool. She was cool and she was relaxed and she was lovely
01:42and gosh I wish I could remember what the scene was that we did.
01:45Yeah, because I think we had different scenes for the audition, right?
01:49Probably.
01:50We didn't have things from the actual movie but I think we had to write scenes for the audition.
01:58I don't know why I may be making that up.
02:00Because auditions are so weird.
02:02They're so weird.
02:02Especially when you're in it and you're reading and then you're like, okay, thanks, bye!
02:05And then you left and we were just like...
02:08I'm like, yes!
02:10I'm so glad you guys are finally meeting.
02:12I know.
02:13I know, it's lovely.
02:15Well, excuse me, I better go check on the hors d'oeuvres but it was great to finally meet you.
02:19It's a great party.
02:21Enjoy.
02:21Bye.
02:22Bye.
02:23Well, I was in my third or fourth year at SNL. I'm so bad with time.
02:28But a few years in.
02:29It was a few years in, yeah, because I remember it came out and I still had one or two
02:37years to go.
02:38And I was there for seven years.
02:40You do the math.
02:42I'm like doing a weird subtraction thing that other people have to figure out.
02:45But I just remember, because I was on the show and Judd had approached me to do something and that's
02:51when I brought on Annie and we wrote the script together.
02:54But I hadn't done like, I'd done little parts and it was kind of like that was the thing on
03:00the show.
03:01Like you would do the show until the summer and then everyone sort of had like a summer job.
03:06And this was just that summer job for me that year.
03:10And then I came back to the show and you don't know.
03:12We were just like, we didn't know.
03:14Like we just did the movie and then we're like, you know, bye.
03:16And then we're like, I hope it does okay.
03:20It's like with anything, you never know.
03:21And then it comes out and then I went back to work.
03:24So.
03:25Yeah.
03:26Yeah.
03:26No, no.
03:27I mean, but crazy that you had written it though.
03:29Like that's amazing to get like a feature made that you wrote.
03:32I would think.
03:35Just to put words in your mouth.
03:37But you had done mostly because you had done drama.
03:39Yeah.
03:40Serious lady.
03:41I'd been doing this show Damages for years, which is very like thriller and like a really fun show with
03:46Glenn Close, who was extraordinary.
03:48And in any case, I'd been dying to try it like anything you'd get, you know, you get pigeonholed.
03:52And I was like, I'd love to try to do something funny.
03:54And then I'd started auditioning and then got this role and get into the Greek, which was like wildly, you
03:59know, ridiculous.
03:59You're so good.
04:00So silly and so silly and fun.
04:02And then got this audition.
04:04And so and like Kristen can never anticipate anything about a job, how it will go or be received or
04:09anything.
04:09So it's kind of extraordinary to still be talking about it 15 years later.
04:14And, you know, the love for the movie and everything.
04:18But but I get it.
04:19People are curious because it's it's such a beloved thing.
04:22But I was dying to do something funny is the answer.
04:25And then, as I said, I was such a fan of Kristen.
04:28And on the show, she was clearly kind of special.
04:31So it was, you know, you get intimidated and all that stuff.
04:35But it was crazy.
04:37That's how I felt.
04:37In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side forever more.
04:46That's what friends are for.
05:01We just went off.
05:02Yes.
05:03The books.
05:04Paul was like, just keep going.
05:06Just keep going up there.
05:08That to me was a very sort of gelling scene for me where I was like, OK.
05:14And even just for me, it was my first like big part of the movie.
05:18I was just like, I felt a little more comfortable after that scene because we got to do it.
05:24And I we only did that long run like one time or two times or something.
05:28And that was it.
05:28And then that that's what's in the movie.
05:30So, oh, my God, that was so silly.
05:32It was so fun.
05:33I mean, it just got, you know.
05:33It's probably a lot.
05:34There's probably a much longer.
05:36I know.
05:36It's going to be a whole film of us just going back and forth.
05:39But I remember everyone standing there and they were really fun.
05:42Like people were laughing and it was like, it was very, it was just so silly.
05:45It just got so competitive and ridiculous.
05:47And like, I'm terrible because I'd start laughing.
05:49I was useless.
05:51Useless.
05:51Like, Wig and Meyer are so incredible.
05:53They never break.
05:54They were like, and I would be just losing it.
05:58I pulled the crew so sick of it.
06:00But it felt, I don't know.
06:02It felt really, it felt really special when we did it.
06:04But you never know.
06:05You never know.
06:05You never know.
06:06But it was, it was so silly.
06:08So fun.
06:09Oh, well, Kristen, this, you know, we've told this story a few times.
06:11But she hired a party bus for the whole cast.
06:15And we went to a very classy place.
06:17To a very classy place.
06:19That was really fun.
06:21We went to a male strip club.
06:23Because I thought it was good for research.
06:28Kind of.
06:29Of course, yeah.
06:29Well, originally, in the original.
06:31Oh yeah, that's right.
06:32In the original version.
06:33There was a whole sequence.
06:33That's right.
06:34We did.
06:34That's right.
06:35So, um.
06:36That's why.
06:38No, but it was so, it was a lesson to me too.
06:40And, like, just having that experience where we all get to be together.
06:44And, like, shooting something like that with that many women.
06:48I'd never had that experience before.
06:50And some of us had known each other for a long time.
06:52And some of us, they were just, like, literally meeting that night.
06:54Or, like, with rehearsals and everything.
06:56And it was just a fun, amazing night.
07:00It was fun.
07:00And it was pretty great.
07:03Yeah, it was like a bonding, fun, ridiculous, like, so fun.
07:07Yeah.
07:07Like, it's a good idea.
07:09Yeah.
07:09It was a good idea.
07:10It was a great idea.
07:11And Chris, it's a party animal.
07:15That's the quote that's going to be.
07:17But it was fun.
07:18It was, like, we just, like, relaxed.
07:20Yeah.
07:21Let loose.
07:21It was, like, that opportunity to do that.
07:23And it was just, like, it was so silly.
07:25Yeah.
07:25And it was, it was a good, it was a good call.
07:27And even just, like, in between takes and everything, you know,
07:31we're thinking of alts for the thing.
07:33But we're also just, like, hanging out with each other and getting to know each other
07:35and learning about each other.
07:36And, like, that, that's, like, the best part about, one of the best parts about what we
07:41do is we get to, like, be with each other.
07:44And, you know, it was, like, three months?
07:46Yeah.
07:47Two and a half months?
07:47Something like that?
07:48Yeah.
07:48I don't, I don't know what to say.
07:50You look...
07:52No.
07:53No.
07:53Megan, are you okay?
07:57Oh.
07:57No.
07:58Oh.
07:58I think my, my dress, my dress was probably just tight.
08:03Oh, my God.
08:04Mm-mm.
08:04You got food poisoning from that restaurant, didn't you?
08:07No, I had the same thing that she had, and I, I feel fine.
08:10Oh, my, okay.
08:11Oh, no.
08:12That was a sequence that came later in the writing process that we sort of embraced and,
08:19like, okay, well, we'll write our version of this type of thing.
08:24And we just kind of made it our own.
08:26And it was, like, we don't want to see any.
08:29I love that.
08:30I don't want to see any vomit.
08:32You can find a way.
08:33Your version.
08:34You can find a way to do your version of it.
08:36I agree.
08:36Yeah, I love that.
08:36I love that, yeah.
08:37They were right.
08:38It was just, it was funny.
08:40It was so fun to do that scene and to see the different, like Rose was saying, like,
08:46different characters, to see everyone's version of, like, just, for example, like,
08:49not feeling well, like, trying to hide it.
08:52Just the way, even Ellie, just politely, like, I don't know.
08:55It was just kind of, it was fun to watch the ladies just, like, do their thing.
08:59Watching these incredible women who were all from improv comedy backgrounds,
09:04whether it was Groundlings or UCB or SNL or, like, like, my character's kind of
09:07a straight man in a lot of the movie.
09:09But I just learned.
09:11I would just watch quietly and look.
09:13It doesn't come across as straight.
09:15You're so funny in it.
09:16But I would just secretly be banking things and, like, wow, that this and that
09:21and this little bit of that or, like, the script changing or, like, adjusting things
09:24or writing to strength, figuring out what was working.
09:27Like, it was an amazing curve for me.
09:29And, yeah, I just was, like, not schooling sounds like, like, it's homework or something.
09:35And it was the opposite.
09:36It was just joyful.
09:37I would be, like, watching and, like, enjoying too much because I would be, like, laughing.
09:42As I said, I'd be taking everybody out of the scene and I would be laughing a lot.
09:46So, you know.
09:47But that's always fun to watch.
09:48Which, you know, can be fun for a little bit.
09:51But so that was kind of, that was my kind of takeaway, I think, as of, in retrospect, a little
09:55bit.
09:55Yeah.
09:56I didn't quite realize, like, how lucky I was.
10:00Not that I took advantage of it in any way.
10:02But I think, I don't know.
10:04Like, looking back, I'm kind of like, I can't believe, I was so, like, I felt very new in the
10:10acting world.
10:12And we did write it and I was, you know, starring in it and producing and, like, all that stuff.
10:17Like, now I'm like, oh, I wonder.
10:18Obviously, having done more of it, do you look back and go, oh, I wish I would have maybe, like,
10:23known this thing or done this differently?
10:25Like, sure.
10:26It was a huge learning experience for me.
10:29Yeah.
10:29Literally, all of those three things, I did for the first time in front of everybody.
10:34And so I think, looking back, I'm like, okay, you do have to learn certain things, whether you're dealing with,
10:39you know, like, the studio.
10:41Yeah, heads of department.
10:42Yeah, heads of department.
10:43And you're just making decisions all day.
10:44How do you manage this and what's your job and what's not your job?
10:49And it was that, that was school for me.
10:51The secret to a great marriage is not resisting the man.
10:55It's living for him.
10:58Oh.
10:59What the fuck?
11:00Maxine, you're not that lost.
11:03I am not lost, Linda.
11:05I am but found.
11:07I'm curious with Maxine, like, what that, I mean, that character is so hysterical.
11:12Thank you, Rose.
11:12And traffics in such delusion and is so entertaining.
11:15She's a little more delusional than I am.
11:17I'm like, she's much more ambitious than I am also.
11:22Yeah, she is, of course.
11:23She's very-
11:24She's like the whole driving force.
11:25Yes.
11:26I mean, there's, I will say like a similarity.
11:28I do have like a belief that everything works out and it is supposed to work out the way it's
11:34supposed to work out.
11:35And-
11:36Can you write that down?
11:36Nose are really yeses and-
11:38Huh?
11:38Write that down for me.
11:39Yeah, write that down.
11:41And I do believe that in life.
11:44So I think she's like that.
11:45But I, I just think she, she doesn't take no for an answer and I do.
11:52I'm like, nope, got it, great, okay.
11:54Um, yeah.
11:56And obviously she's just a little more, you know, she's kind of like scheming in a way.
12:01But she's well intentioned, which I guess I am.
12:05But, God, it's kind of hard to think about similarities and differences.
12:08I love you in that.
12:10No, it's such a like, you get to stretch and flex and do stuff and you're so, your physical comedy
12:15is just a chef's kiss.
12:16You're so, and you look magnificent.
12:20The outfits.
12:20The outfits are fun.
12:21They're so fun.
12:22Like, that's so fun.
12:23Yeah.
12:24That's like a fun part of going to work.
12:25You get to put on a thing.
12:26I know.
12:26It helps, you know, to like become someone.
12:29I don't know.
12:29I just, I, I love that more and more as I get older.
12:32Yes, me too.
12:32More character-y elements.
12:34I think it's like so fun.
12:36Yeah.
12:36But in terms of legs, I am pretty different.
12:40If you were like, I am exact.
12:41Exactly.
12:42It's so weird.
12:43I'm like, she's okay.
12:45Did you get any sleep?
12:47Um, I think you shouldn't end your relationship with your therapist.
12:50Um, Conan should not be your therapist.
12:53For start, that guy, that guy is terrible.
12:55But the main difference was that character, well, I mean, there's huge differences with
12:58that character.
12:59I think she's very, very different from me.
13:00The character is incredibly hostile, Linda.
13:03And it's, and she comes from a place of hostility throughout the film.
13:06And that, because she's under such stress and trauma, whereas my default is not hostility
13:11if I'm under stress or trauma, it is a different thing.
13:14I'm like a, I go overboard in another way, but not like that.
13:18So that was hard because it was, it's not my natural default.
13:21So it was, it was challenging to like constantly capture that hostility that she has biting
13:27everybody and cutting everybody off.
13:30And that was, that was hard.
13:31That's not, that was a counterintuitive, but fun too.
13:34Cause it's like, okay, who is like that in my life?
13:36Who can I, you know, draw from?
13:38And what, where does that come from?
13:39That threat that she's under threat all the time.
13:41But knowing you and seeing her, I was like, who is this person?
13:46Because it was, it's so heartbreaking.
13:50And you are, you are hot.
13:52That's a great word.
13:53Cause it's like, everything is just.
13:55Yeah.
13:55And you, you're waiting the whole movie for her to just like run over somebody in a car.
14:00And I'm just like, and I think.
14:01He's not going to laugh.
14:02Because I know you.
14:03Yeah. No.
14:03But also I think that's a testament to your performance, but like from go, I was like,
14:10Oh, this is her.
14:11That's who this person is.
14:12And it was, it was like, I'm going to embarrass you.
14:15It was like truly one of the most amazing performances that I've seen.
14:19And I was just from beginning to end, I was like blown away.
14:25Sorry.
14:26I'm embarrassing her.
14:27Let me just get this straight.
14:29You aren't going into the program anymore.
14:31And you aren't going into our apartment anymore.
14:34That's right.
14:35Why?
14:36How do you expect anything to get back to normal then?
14:40It won't.
14:42What are you talking about?
14:44It won't!
14:45Did you have moments before?
14:48Cause this has happened to me.
14:49Like before you shot this where you were like, I don't know if I can.
14:53Every day.
14:54Okay.
14:54Yeah.
14:55Yeah.
14:55Every day.
14:57I would be like.
14:58Truly.
14:58Cause that's happening.
14:59And I was like, do I have to pull out?
15:01No.
15:01Like I don't think, I don't think I can do this.
15:03Of course.
15:04Absolutely.
15:05No, I like, I didn't want to mess it up.
15:07And I was just so.
15:08God, that's so fascinating.
15:09You know, of course.
15:10Yeah.
15:10And at the end of every day, I would be calling Mary Bronstein.
15:14Did we get this?
15:15Like I became a little bit like the character is very paranoid.
15:18And I think I was, like, I'm not a method person, but I, in any case, you do become
15:22a little bit consumed with your, with your subject, whether you like it or not.
15:26And I was getting like, did we get this?
15:28I don't know if we did that.
15:29Like I was so on track in my mind of what, what we needed, you know, and try to have
15:35faith,
15:35but it's like, no, I'm constantly wondering if this is going to come together.
15:39And particularly before you start, once you're in, it's better.
15:41Cause you're just in it.
15:42Before you start your own.
15:43But it's the anticipation before.
15:45What have I done?
15:45No, I have that every, I kind of have that every time.
15:47Yeah.
15:47It's kind of boring.
15:48Yeah.
15:49Bobby's like, can we be done?
15:50But I think it's good too, because then when you're done, you're like, oh my gosh,
15:55I did it.
15:57And also that's like, it's kind of fun to be a little scared about it.
16:01I feel like you think if you're not a little bit scared, you know, something like then
16:06maybe re-examine what, I don't know, a little bit what you're doing.
16:09Exactly.
16:09So yeah, and I was massively, you know, very scared about doing it.
16:15Yeah.
16:15There's a lot, a lot to tackle.
16:17For this, Mary Bronstein put together a playlist and a lot of it, which is really cool.
16:21So a lot of the songs in the movie, like the Henry Nielsen song, the, the hot freak song,
16:26like, so all of that, she made me a playlist.
16:28So that was really fun.
16:29So we shared that.
16:30And then we did a lot of research.
16:32Like I got, we got five weeks, just her and I rehearsing together where we would like be,
16:36we sat at her kitchen table three days a week and just went through.
16:38So we went through the script and we had all this prep.
16:41We spoke to mothers who had children with special needs.
16:45So we did it so much.
16:46I spoke to a therapist.
16:48I did breath work.
16:50Mary's really performance driven.
16:51So she's like, let's like go for it.
16:53We have this time.
16:54And that was awesome.
16:55It was so fun.
16:56I mean, I know it's very different.
16:56Some actors don't want to do that.
16:58They're like, it's like very spontaneous and they don't.
17:00And I, it's whatever works, you know, whatever your process is.
17:04So for me, it was, it was good.
17:06Yeah.
17:06You do have to find that balance with the director of like, you want to know, they know what they
17:13want, but also let you do that.
17:17Right.
17:18Like I feel a little more stifled.
17:21I think if I know someone's watching literally like, not, this has never happened.
17:26Like, don't blink on that line.
17:27You know what I mean?
17:28Like that kind of stuff can take me out where I get nervous and I feel like I'm being, like
17:35I can't relax into it.
17:37Micromanaged a little bit.
17:37Yeah.
17:37Yeah.
17:38I mean, it's, I, it hasn't happened often.
17:41Can I ask, because like when you're doing a show, I find you end up invariably knowing more than the
17:46directors about your character.
17:48I think when you're on a long running series, like, do you ever find that where you're like, yeah, you
17:53know what?
17:53I feel like you disagree about a choice.
17:55Cause you're like, I don't know this character more intuitively than you do.
17:58I'm trying to, I, no, I mean for, for this show, no, only because our show runner, he knew the
18:04character.
18:04So, but also like collaborative be like, do this and do that.
18:09And like, whatever feels right.
18:11And 10 times out of 10, when it's over, it's either like you were right or just like you were
18:15right.
18:16And then like you have both.
18:17But I do think, especially in like the writing, there could be things where it's like, oh, I don't know
18:23if she would.
18:24Yeah.
18:25Yeah. Like, like, and now halfway through season two, like, I don't know if she'd say that.
18:29Yeah.
18:29And it's like, oh yeah, you're right.
18:31Cause you get to know the, you get to know it.
18:33Yeah.
18:33I feel like it's all pieces from a lot of different directors have been instrumental, whether it was like Paul
18:40or Nick Stoller,
18:41or I was lucky enough to work with Sofia Coppola on a little, like a tiny part in Marie Antoinette.
18:46But even her like direction was also something I hadn't done before and discovered new things.
18:50So it's, it's, I feel like I've never had that thing where you work with someone again and again, like
18:55repeated.
18:55I'm curious about that. I would love to have that relationship with somebody where you're again and again.
18:59The closest really is Nick Stoller. And that's been lovely because he really gave me, he gave me my shot
19:04at doing something funny and he still does.
19:07And so, and he writes so much to Seth and I's strengths on platonic. So I feel, I feel very
19:12close.
19:13You know, we have a great working relationship and he's really shaped my, you know, relationship with, with, you know,
19:20with comedy.
19:32I would love to see Kristen Wiig go all out, all out, all in.
19:39What, what, what?
19:42Outer space. No.
19:43Oh my God. I want to go to space. Would you like to go to space?
19:46I would love, cause I'm obsessed with stuff.
19:49You would?
19:49Oh my God. I would do that in a second.
19:51I would, I would love for you to do what, like, I would love for you to like pick your
19:54genre and be like, that's what I want to go to space. Take me to space.
19:58Wait, you mean in real life?
19:59No, in the movies. In the movies. You want to go to real life?
20:01I was like, I do not want to go to space in real life.
20:03No, in space in real life.
20:04No, no, no.
20:04I would love to be like, we've got for the, you know what I mean? Like, oh, they're coming and
20:09like, like, think it's going to get me the job? Oh, they're coming and I'm typing.
20:15No, but I would love to just be like walking down the corridor and be like, the ship is arriving.
20:21I would love to see you, that's dramatic, like in space, like, but I would love to see you full
20:26drama. Full drama.
20:27Full drama.
20:28Full drama.
20:28I would love, like, like, and I've done some of that, but I would love, I would love that.
20:33I would like to see you.
20:35Yeah.
20:35Do a comedy in space.
20:39I think this is writing itself.
20:41I think it's writing itself.
20:42It's something's in space.
20:44Something's in space.
20:44We're in space.
20:45Where we're going to be in space.
20:46And we're in space together.
20:46And you're going to be the wacky.
20:48And I'm going to bring up jokes.
20:50You're going to be real serious.
20:52Typing.
20:54Typing.
20:54I get taken over by some sort of like alien.
20:57AI.
20:58But no, and you know it, but nobody believes you because you're the crazy.
21:02Because I'm the.
21:03You're the crazy leader.
21:04Well, she's crazy.
21:05Don't trust.
21:06Yes.
21:07Genevieve.
21:08Yes.
21:08You're.
21:12I think we're, we might have.
21:13It's writing itself.
21:15Yeah.
21:15We're going to make some calls.
21:19We don't want to give away the plot, but at the end we both die.
21:24That's it.
21:25It's written itself.
21:26You
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