Andy Richter

So me and my sister did our local talent show, our school talent show every year.

Wow.

Were you any good?

If by tapping well you mean like glitter and gloves, and I did this one, me and my shadow with my sister, and we got in a fight right before we were doing it in front of our school, and my mom brought in the wood panels, and my sister and I are fighting, and she's really shy, and I don't sing along with her, so she had to sing in front of our whole school by herself, and I'm in this big black unitard as her shadow, and so I haven't lived it down since then.

I actually still feel very guilty about that.

And she's never seen any movie you've ever done because she's still mad, right?

So you grew up on musicals, and so you must have been excited when you got to direct the movie version of probably the biggest musical of the last 20 years, right?

Wicked?

Yeah, I was psyched.

I saw Wicked before it was ever on Broadway, when it was at San Francisco, because we had season tickets, and my mom called me up.

I was at USC at the time.

She said, come watch Stephen Schwartz's new musical.

So I got to watch it sort of as patient zero, before anyone knew anything about it.

I just have to ask, to personal reasons, when you were watching Wicked, were there any middle-aged men in the audience sobbing at...

defying gravity?

Did that happen at all?

We were all sobbing.

We were all sobbing.

Okay, so I have to ask you about this, especially with the first installment, Wicked.

There were so many marketing tie-ins.