The Hollywood Reporter's comedy actress roundtable is about to drop, and we're giving you a special preview. The episode marks the latest installment in our signature roundtable series, Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter. This time around, the stars sitting down at our iconic table are Kristen Bell, Hannah Einbinder, Kathryn Hahn, Natasha Lyonne, Jessica Williams and Michelle Williams.
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00:00A lot of it is aspirational.
00:02A lot of the time I feel like there's something I can say through someone else
00:05that I can't really say in my own life.
00:08Like I remember thinking like I could only, when I was a kid doing theater,
00:11I was like, oh, this is where I'm telling the truth.
00:13It's like between like the curtain up and down.
00:17So yeah, I feel like I learn, it feels like I can be,
00:20there's certain things I, I'm sure you guys feel the same way that I can like touch
00:24that I maybe I'm not ready to in my own life or that it looks fun to try.
00:29The Hollywood Reporter's Comedy Actress Roundtable is about to drop
00:34and we're giving you a special preview.
00:36The episode marks the latest installment in our signature roundtable series,
00:40Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter.
00:42This time around, the stars sitting down at our iconic table are
00:45Kristen Bell, Hannah Einbinder, Catherine Hahn, Natasha Lyonne, Jessica Williams and Michelle Williams.
00:53Earlier on in my career, like I don't know, probably like 15 years ago
00:56when I felt like I wasn't booking the things I wanted to book
00:59and, but I, I'm going to also bleed that into the things people wanted me to book.
01:04Sure.
01:04And it was like, oh, lost another role.
01:06Okay.
01:07No, it's Michelle Williams again.
01:08That's okay.
01:08Great.
01:09No, it's Michelle.
01:09Okay.
01:09It's going to be Michelle.
01:10It's going to be Emily.
01:11Great.
01:12Perfect.
01:12Love it.
01:13I love those girls.
01:13So happy.
01:14And my, and my husband was sitting there with me.
01:16He's like, you know what?
01:17Stop trying to drive in other people's lanes.
01:20You're not going to be Michelle Williams ever, but you have a lane on the highway and you
01:26can speed in it.
01:28So just do what you do.
01:30During the hour long sit down moderated by THR's Lacey Rose, the six actresses spoke about
01:35everything from their comedy inspirations.
01:38Growing up, it's like, I feel like I took pieces of people.
01:40There's like really amazing black female comic actors.
01:44I was like, Queen Latifah was amazing, Whoopi Goldberg, Maya Rudolph, like, are you kidding
01:50me?
01:50Like, are you, like, I mean, just these legends, but I, but it still wasn't quite right.
01:54So I had to take, like, I take all those pieces of these people.
01:58And I even take, like, like Tracy Morgan, like I take, like, so, Tina Fey, like all of
02:04it.
02:04And I just hear whatever's funny.
02:06It just sticks in my head and did as a kid.
02:08To the importance of having a strong support system.
02:10And if you're in a partnership and you have children, like you need their,
02:14full and unwavering support to be able to go and do these things and to say, yeah, this
02:21is something that we're working on as a family.
02:22Because I think when you, when you do something, when you, like, take time away from your family,
02:25the other people in your family need to sort of step up and, like, fill your shoes a little
02:29bit.
02:29And so they have to, like, believe in what you're doing.
02:31And even why it's time to let go of dated narratives surrounding women in entertainment.
02:35It's miraculous that you move from this kind of false narrative that I think is set up
02:40by advertising throughout industry for this young woman, this 11 year old, whoever it
02:44is, that for some reason women are supposed to be against each other.
02:47It's just empirically not true.
02:49What we really want to start doing is making it a more of a team sport and letting go of,
02:55you know, so long as one of us is winning, that means we're all winning because I need
02:59you guys in jobs, like, in order for them to be understanding that this is the new aesthetic.
03:05Offscript with The Hollywood Reporter is known for bringing the entertainment industry's
03:08top creatives together for surprising and inspiring conversations.
03:12What Hacks has been able to do for bisexual representation is give, like, a vivid inner
03:17life and a reality to this character.
03:20Obviously, we know that when people write to their own experience, something is just far
03:24more lived in.
03:25And as a queer actor myself playing a queer character, I can, you know, add my zest.
03:31Catch the Comedy Actress Roundtable when it airs at 9 p.m. Pacific, midnight Eastern on
03:36Friday, June 6th on IFC.
03:38It'll be available to stream the same day on AMC+.
03:41The extended digital version will be posted on youtube.com slash hollywoodreporter and thr.com
03:47on Sunday, June 8th.
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