00:00Oh God, I'm so sorry.
00:03Okay, let's see. I'm not gonna...
00:05I'm not gonna take anyone out.
00:07No matter what variety wants me to do.
00:19Haibachi, Benihana, Teriyaki.
00:22Scary Movie 3...
00:24I think?
00:264.
00:27Scary Movie 4.
00:30Haibachi, Benihana, Teriyaki.
00:33Haibachi, Benihana, Teriyaki.
00:35I had never done comedy.
00:37I was never known for comedy.
00:39I was like a little dramatic theater rat in Seattle.
00:44I had just decided to maybe give LA a year.
00:48I was gonna wait tables.
00:50I just graduated from college,
00:51but acting was something I didn't think I was good enough.
00:54I didn't think I was hot enough, whatever.
00:56So getting cast in Scary Movie was an earthquake in my life.
01:00An absolute earthquake.
01:01I had called my college roommate and I said,
01:04I was just cast as the lead in a spoof movie.
01:08And she said,
01:09Oh, Anna, you're not funny.
01:11I was like, I know.
01:12I know.
01:13I wasn't funny.
01:14She was right.
01:15It turns out I don't know all the activities that my face does, you know?
01:26Instead of the mahi-mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I'm not that hungry?
01:40The house bunny, I'm really proud of that project because it's so beloved and because it was a character that
01:47I had conceived of.
01:49I was pitching to the writers of Legally Blonde this character.
01:53I said, she's this lower echelon playboy bunny that's getting a little older.
01:59You know, she didn't go to college.
02:02She didn't get to marry the rich dude.
02:05What happens to her?
02:06And I said, maybe she becomes addicted to meth and she has to return to like her small conservative town
02:14and sort of have this reconciliation with her identity.
02:18And they were like, mm-hmm, or she could become a house mom at a sorority.
02:25Okay.
02:27So we pitched that movie 24 times around town on the 24th time it sold.
02:33Adam Sandler, Happy Madison, really wanted to go shoot at the Playboy Mansion.
02:40And we shot there our first week and it was surreal.
02:44I was at a point in my career where it felt like if I'm not proactive, I'm not going to
02:50work.
02:51And then it's like, how does one be proactive?
02:53And so, yes, I got to shoot at the Playboy Mansion.
02:56At some point, you got to realize that things are a little seedy.
03:01They felt seedy then and they feel really, really seedy now.
03:08So I guess I got invited to a couple of them, but maybe.
03:20Whoa.
03:21I don't know if I know this.
03:23Okay.
03:24Why don't you ask the Reverend to pray on it?
03:27Am I, this feels like, am I telling somebody off?
03:32Why don't you ask the Reverend to pray on it?
03:34Who?
03:35Why don't you ask the Reverend to pray on it?
03:37Who am I?
03:38Is it a multicam?
03:43Are you friends?
03:45This is friends.
03:46Why don't you ask the Reverend to pray on it?
03:48I tell Chandler off?
03:50On friends?
03:51Because my character was kind of innocent too, right?
03:53So how was that delivery?
03:54Let me try it again.
03:57Why don't you ask the Reverend to pray on it?
03:59I do remember like these sentimental group hugs because I think I was on the second to
04:05last episode giving birth.
04:08Like we would be having finished rehearsal and standing on the floor and I would be the
04:14only person that would be about two feet away from their group hug.
04:17They would be like, come on, come on, which also felt inappropriate.
04:21Like, I, I, I, I, like, I'm just here for, I, you guys, this feels wrong, but so special.
04:31And getting to shoot in front of the live audience for those audiences, you know, those
04:36people in that audience really knew what it meant to, would get to witness the end of this incredible show.
04:48Oh boy.
04:50It's not every day that your best friend grows a penis.
04:54Okay.
04:54This is gotta be the hot chick.
04:57What?
04:57It's not every day that your best friend grows a penis.
05:00What was my character's name?
05:03April.
05:04Sweet April.
05:05She's in love with her best friend, or at least crushes pretty hard.
05:10But I don't remember where we are when I say this.
05:12Am I on the bleachers?
05:13Or no, that was boys are cheats and liars.
05:16Boys are cheats and liars.
05:18They're such a big disgrace.
05:20Okay.
05:21Uh, boys are cheats and liars.
05:23They're such a big disgrace.
05:26Uh, they will tell you anything to get to second.
05:30Baseball, baseball.
05:31He thinks he's gonna score.
05:34Horticulture study.
05:36Flowers.
05:37Geologist studies.
05:38Rocks.
05:39All boys.
05:41Cockroaches.
05:42Beetles.
05:44Butterflies.
05:45And bugs.
05:49He's up in the North Pole dealing with the whole ice cap situation.
05:54Yeah, he's probably gonna fix it.
05:56Yeah, he's probably gonna fix it.
05:56I don't know what this is from.
05:59At all.
06:00A movie.
06:00A rom-com.
06:03Oh, uh, what's your number?
06:05Oh, good.
06:06I love, I loved playing that character.
06:09He's up in the North Pole dealing with the whole ice cap situation.
06:14My best friend from childhood.
06:16That's her favorite of my movies.
06:18Because she feels like Ally, my character in Witcher number is closest to who I am.
06:24I think I'm a little more, I wear more sweatpants than Ally does in the movie.
06:29But, oh yeah, he's up in the North Pole dealing with the whole ice cap situation.
06:34Yeah, I think he's probably gonna solve it.
06:38Oh boy.
06:39Okay.
06:40This is a mouthful, isn't it?
06:42This must have been a stressful day on set.
06:45This is my store.
06:46This is a Free Earth Collective.
06:48We are a vegan, feminist, non-profit cooperative operating within an anti-racist, anti-oppressive
06:55framework for people of all or no genders.
06:59This is from The Dictator.
07:01We are a vegan, feminist, non-profit cooperative operating within an anti-racist, anti-oppressive
07:07framework for people of all or no genders.
07:09My character is feminist and she believes in justice.
07:14You know, to her core.
07:17I'm in New York.
07:19It's the summer.
07:20I've grown out my armpit hair.
07:22My own armpit hair.
07:24And when your armpit hair, you haven't ever really seen it.
07:28You know, and when you, you've been bleaching your hair since you were 15 years old.
07:33So, you don't imagine your armpit hair coming in so dark and curly, but not even curly, just
07:43sort of straight kink.
07:45And you're like, hey, you want a cab?
07:50I feel like I wanted to do a little more with who Zoe was.
07:58There were a lot of writers working all the time.
08:02I think also having grown up in, with film, where you're restricted.
08:08Improv is a gamble and a lot of directors don't like it.
08:12So, having had those, that strict kind of boundary, I don't improv as much as one would
08:19think.
08:20But I do like to think I improv at crucial moments.
08:26God, I wanna lick your skin off.
08:30Just friends?
08:32God, I wanna lick your skin off.
08:34I prefer you David.
08:35Man, I loved playing Samantha James.
08:38I got to, like, express something.
08:41The brat in me.
08:43Oh, it was really, really fun to play a character that was so entitled, so confident, so talentless,
08:54so obnoxious, unaware.
08:56Just wonderful.
08:58I want to play versions of her again.
09:01I'd love to play her again.
09:03It was a delight.
09:06Okay.
09:07While other mothers were cooking dinner, you were cooking meth.
09:10While other mothers were cooking dinner, you were cooking meth.
09:15That must be from Mom.
09:16I must be talking to Alice and Janie.
09:18While other mothers were cooking dinner, you were cooking meth.
09:21Season one.
09:22Episode one?
09:24All right.
09:25I had never met her before the show, and yes, right from day one, we had a special bond,
09:32a special friendship, and I needed that.
09:35You know, it was seven seasons, seven years.
09:39And couldn't have done it without her.
09:42You know, she is just an incredible person.
09:46I love her so much.
09:47I think that show continues to resonate with fans because of its subject matter.
09:53We were intimate and vulnerable.
09:57I'm proud to be a part of something that, you know, at the grocery store, at, I don't go anywhere
10:03else.
10:04At the grocery store, in the freezer section, in the meat section, vegetables, baking, for sure baking.
10:13I get a lot of people telling me how much a show has, like, has meant to them.
10:20I love Jell-O.
10:24I feel like this could be in any of my movies.
10:28Oh, of course, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
10:32But don't you think any of my characters could say, I love Jell-O.
10:36I love Jell-O.
10:38I love Jell-O, too.
10:39I loved working with those guys.
10:43Like, in Seattle, there wasn't a ton of work for, I don't know, for actors at that time.
10:50And I would do a lot of voice work, though.
10:52I would do a lot of regional commercials and, like, whatever to get 200 bucks here and there.
10:57I've always enjoyed doing voice work, creating a character, playing with levels of vocal levels,
11:03and getting to do a movie where, you know, if you find yourself talking at the grocery store about Mom,
11:12the show Mom with Allison Janney, and there's a little kid that's in the cart,
11:18and they're like, cartoons don't talk, do they?
11:23And you're like, yep, they do.
11:27Um, you're behind the couch.
11:32I can see your feet.
11:34Cindy Campbell, the original scary movie.
11:38Um, you're behind the couch.
11:42How do you know that?
11:44I can, um, see your feet.
11:46For me, like, getting to revisit this franchise in this way, with the Wayans brothers getting their franchise back,
11:56I didn't think it would ever happen this way.
11:58In fact, I thought that if I was a part of a scary movie again, that it would feel, like,
12:06a little bit sad for me.
12:08Like, okay, you know, I'm doing this for the mortgage, and, you know, Cindy's gonna, I gotta get back on
12:20that horse again.
12:21And so to have it with Marlon calling me, I hadn't talked to them for 23 years.
12:27I never had an opportunity to thank Keenan for casting me.
12:32So I got to personally, you know, just show up every day, tell them how thrilled I was to act
12:41with them again,
12:42and thank them for throwing me into the world of comedy that I didn't know I needed.
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