Kathryn Hahn

“And these two girls were really, really, really deeply religious. And they couldn't go to bed without praying. Like the two of them side by side, like on their knees praying very deeply. And I went up and I like pretended to be as deep into it as they were because it looked so romantic.”

“Also, I didn't want there to be, and I don't think any of us wanted there to be any kind of halo around this, around this character. That I just, you know, the thing that attracted me most to the material is that it was just, she was so without apologies, so without shame, so troublesome, totally contradictory and maddening, you know, hilarious, so messy, all the like delicious stuff as an actor, something to chew on.”

“Yeah, yeah, she wants to, she is demanding to, yeah, she's to drive her own narrative. Also, but, you know, and she's a complicated character, which I love about it too, is that, again, talking about the halo, like, she's dismissive of other women's work, like she's petty, she's really jealous, like she's, I mean, she's a total complicated, awesome mess.”

“What I've always loved about it is that she has an ability to step outside and just kind of a little bit make fun of pretense or any kind of, if preciousness starts to like sink in at all, she has a way of diffusing it, which is always like, I really appreciate. Because this is pretty, pretty heady stuff.”

“He's talked with a lot of people who knew him and watched hours and hours and hours of The Late Show and Late Night. And he came to appreciate the really particularly specific things about David Letterman, like the way he makes jokes out of non-joke words. It's not just that Letterman finds words funny. It's that a funny word is enough of a joke.”