I just watched the fifth episode, “Time of the Monkey,” and I thought, “Wow, that’s a whole other tone.” And I loved it. I find the tone fascinating in every episode because it’s not quite the same. They were being arrested, led away in handcuffs and she took on some Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard “I’m ready for my close-up” thing. That was my first day of shooting, the last scene, which was hard. ![]() ![]() I imagine you didn’t film in order, either. And if something was not gelling, they were right there and it was beautiful.Īudry Corsa as Rebecca, Tim Meadows as Michael and Ellen Barkin as Kathleen in the fictional play, The Ghosts of Pensacola. Lilla and Nora, our showrunners, the Zuckermans, they’re just spectacular. Those scripts are so tight and beautifully written. ( Laughs.) I don’t think I wrote anything. Yes, oh, God, that’s right! I wonder if I said that to them. Your character had a similar line in the episode, about how actresses go from playing the wife to a senator to a “dementia patient.” I wondered if you had input there. I went from the ugly wife or girlfriend to the irresistible sex symbol, to the mean old lady. ( Laughing more.) It’s what I call the mean old lady stereotype. And I understood why the offer came my way ( laughs.) So they said, “Yeah, it starts in four days.” I said, “Ok.” The script was just too good. ( Laughs.) And, “Can you leave in like four days?” You know, it’s TV and when I’m on a show and they cast guest stars, they have four days. What was your conversation like with Rian Johnson about taking on this role?Īnd they said, “We have this perfect part for you?”Įxactly. It was fucking hilarious.”īelow, the Emmy- and Tony-winning film and TV actress takes THR behind-the-scenes of The Ghosts of Pensacola production (including the Stephen Sondheim nods) and reveals the final scene she filmed that didn’t make the cut, which answers a burning question about the episode’s ending. “If you are an actress of a certain age, you do not have to model those characters after anyone,” Barkin tells THR with a laugh when discussing the episode. The police arrive during that final number, and the episode cuts to black. Once it’s revealed that Kathleen actually wrote the script for the pair’s crime, she commits to going down in infamy and performs a rapturous final act. Her behavior while rehearsing the show was offensive enough to make a Page Six item, as she berated her younger co-star (Audrey Corsa) and confronted Charlie about their lack of respect to the craft. ![]() That was our trickiest, most complex.”īarkin’s Kathleen initially appeared desperate to reclaim the spotlight, which is why she pitched the play to Michael. There are details and clues everywhere, and it’s hilarious. “Can we have Charlie solve this crime as the play is running and people are going backstage and running out on stage, and she’s up in the rafters and all over the set?” said Lilla, previously speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, of the intricacies involved in pulling off the episode, which was written by Chris Downey. The parody production, called The Ghosts of Pensacola, takes place at a local dinner theater that recently employed Poker Face‘s non-official detective Charlie Cale (Lyonne), who ends up proving for the police that the famed actors, in a Hollywood twist, were secretly in love and had plotted Ava’s murder.Ĭharlie’s secret gift is her ability to spot a lie, which anchors her as the central character who solves each episode’s murder mystery. The theatrical episode sees former sitcom icons Kathleen (Barkin) and Michael (Meadows) reuniting for a one-night-only stage event, and it involved the carefully plotted murder of Michael’s uber-rich wife Ava (Jamil), who fell to her death through a trap door intended to be Kathleen’s showstopping final act. Jamie Christopher, Top-Notch Assistant Director for Marvel, Harry Potter Movies, Dies at 52
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