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.
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00:00Things that I need in my trailer, cozy shoes and a good bluetooth speaker. I like a heating pad
00:17and I like my tea, my needlepoint. I like to needlepoint travel with my pillow. I am doing a
00:25lot of heavy work on the series grotesqueries so when I leave set and go into my trailer the
00:30thing that puts the battery in my bag that gives me the recharge I need is my spouse. I said what I
00:37said. The most basic trailer there is like you know some place to change your clothes go to the
00:44bathroom if you need to but I like really super minimal. I'm like come on let's get going I want
00:49to get out of here and get home. I don't spend time in my trailer honestly when I'm on set I like to
00:53spend time on set but I'll tell you one thing I do do which is very embarrassing. I always take
00:59a teddy bear with me not on set but to the hotel because I'm always staying in hotels. It's not
01:04actually a teddy bear it's a it's a pig it's a pink pig that I go to bed with. I have a wonderful
01:10Quixote trailer and one end is a sitting area with one of those gas fireplaces and the other is with
01:19a makeup chair and I mean you know all of this I 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. I'd like to make clothes like to be
01:33around that. I'd be a hairdresser I wouldn't you know wash it or blow-dried I cut it. Oh I'd like to
01:41be a sniper. Well the reason I said that is because Jenny Snyder-Ehrman who created Matlock
01:48she created Maddie to be a sniper. She was always going to be pointed in the right direction and
01:54then she would solve it. I would love to train Belgian Malinois dogs for the military. I would
02:02be the president so I could just fix some stuff real quick and get some stuff in order in the way
02:08that it should be and then I'd clock out. One very productive day. The television performance
02:13that made me want to become an actor was when I was five years old. I was watching television with
02:18my grandmother. I saw the most gorgeous black woman that I had ever seen in my little five years of
02:24living. She had on a long red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said grandmama who is
02:30that? She said baby that's Lola Falana and I felt like in that moment my destiny was stamped on the
02:38canvas of my imagination. I look at my grandmother and I say that's what I want to be. I want to be
02:44black fabulous and on TV and I am. Frances McDormand in Fargo and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill and Michelle
02:53Pfeiffer in Batman Returns. Gosh the first name that popped into my mind was Joanne Woodward. I remember
02:59seeing her in films years ago Three Faces of Eve and also Shirley MacLaine. She was in Children's Hour
03:06with Audrey Hepburn and I remember watching her in that and Vivian Lee in Streetcar Named Desire with
03:14Brando. You know I actually love Kathy Bates. I love her. She's just one of those people that you
03:20instantly believe when she cries it makes you cry. I 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
03:33I thought of it. I loved that movie. I used to watch it on TV. You won't believe this but I grew up with
03:39no television and I didn't watch movies but the the film that I saw that made me want to become an
03:46actress or understand the the possibilities of film was a film called L'Aventura by an Italian director
03:53called Antonioni and for a long time to this day actually I want to be an Italian actress.
03:59I really want to be Anna Magnani.