Kathryn Hahn
Appearances
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I have, I re I know because sometimes those friends become just family, you know what I mean? As everybody grows and changes and like people there's there. So in my life, always, always, always, but we are very different people. I don't know what, you know, and, You're right.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
There are people like, I think even I've been in a lot of projects where you get like intimate really fast and everybody says goodbye. But then there are certain people where you, I didn't anticipate this. Like I did, that was the, the, one of the pleasures for me too, is like, I did not anticipate that You would want to continue to be my friend after we did it.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And then the fact that it's gotten like deeper and deeper. I'm like, no, I don't know how to do it. I mean, like, I am so grateful for you in my life. We've like... We've been in the trenches. We've been in the trenches.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I think that the real female friends that I have, the deep ones are fewer than I thought I would have. Like the ones that are really, you know, have your back through anything. And there's a difference like these, it's so important to have
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
women in your life that aren't family to grow old with in a way that it's like you said feels very honest but and also hilarious but also doesn't feel like we have to keep up any anything together like keep up any sort of like front it just feels like and also very affirming like to walk into these next chapters together just feels like it's not as terrifying
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I know they will. And I think with my dear, dearest women, friends of which there are very few, that, that is such a source of comfort just to be heard by another woman.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
You're right to have someone that is like in a different stage of our lives that you can, that is so real.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And I remember when they said it was Patti LuPone, I was like, no! And then I met her at the first table read, and she just came in with so many questions. Which, of course, like, she knew nothing about Marvel. I barely know anything about Marvel. So she was like, okay. And it was just all of these very detailed questions. But then she just forgot. And it didn't matter.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
We were all, there was no trailers to go back to really. Cause we were kind of far away always. So we would set up like a little coven of our chairs in a circle. So we're like all of our crew chairs would be in a circle and you could just hear us cackling like the whole, like, I mean, we just laughed and Patty had a boom box and she would get up and like dance or start singing.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And we would all be like, it's coming out of her mouth right now.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I thought like, oh, it's not as cute anymore. But it still comes out. I mean, you're talking to a person that laughs like a...
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And it's a cackle and a very devious laugh. laugh sometimes I just love it so much because it's like a little devious and then huge cackles
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
In high school, it started for sure. And then I was like, you know, I went to an all girls Catholic school. So we had like a... I mean, that group was constantly making fun of the nuns. And so it was just like... Just crying all the time. Just crying all the time. Just like, ah, just floating maxi pads in the, like the St. Then like Mary's pond.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Like there's like a statue of Mary and we just like, and the nuns were like, okay, so there are maxi pads everywhere. Floating in the, it was like always shit like that. Just like fun church giggle stuff. Stupid. Like you'd open up a locker and there'd be like a huge dick that would pop out on a spring.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
They were so bad. Well, because everything was, you know, uniforms and there was like church every week and it all felt like, I don't know if I believe in any of this. Yeah. Yeah. And then B, they were just like really ready to go. Yeah, ready to go. Oh, I was like, let's go, let's go. And I was like, any takers, any takers? And there was not takers. I was horny. So horny. And I was like, okay.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I was like, is it my over plucked eyebrows? What's happening? Is it my Catholic school uniform that my mom thought I was going to gain maybe or like seven dress sizes? But I was literally like kids would go down and see my skirt and just pull it off. Like in school. So we had to wear boxers.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
No, but they were skirting you. I did go to a co-ed Catholic elementary school, and we would have something called Friday flip-up day. So we knew to wear boxers because on Friday, all the guys ran around and flipped up your skirt. Oh my God. Yes. And Thursday throw up day, Wednesday wedding day. I don't know what Tuesday or Monday was.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I don't want to know about it. And then I remember some guy, some kid, I was in sixth grade, called me gorilla legs because I hadn't shaved my legs yet. And I was like horrified by that. So I went home and I tried to shave and it was like a cheese grater. It was like I could see a curl of my skin before it started bleeding. And I was like, oh, I still have scars. I didn't know how to do it.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I mean, it's horrible. It's horrible. The shit I got for my nose my whole life.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
For the size of your nose? Yes. And that I had such a, such a like thing about it that I was like, when I'm 18, I'm getting a nose job. And now I'm so glad that I did it.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
But I think also I feel that way with you. We're in a treacherous time. This is a treacherous moment where you're like have to leave behind all that currency that I really didn't. I wasn't. Listen, I wasn't like. That wasn't my, that wasn't my, my currency in this business was never like. Same. Which I think is helpful going forward because it's not, but yeah, I'm like.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Now I'm mother Han because honestly, this is my Instagram thing that I haven't used in the first five. I kind of petered out on the dumbest one. I just haven't done it again. I put it on my computer and yeah, I haven't posted it. Literally, it's the dumbest last one. I don't even know what it is, but it was just petered out.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And we tried, my daughter tried to find a name for me or like whatever handle. Is that what it's called? Yeah, I think so. And we couldn't find anything with my name. And then we saw mother Han lowercase. And I was like, oh, that's funny. And she was like, you know, the other connotations though. And I was like, yeah, fine. I'll be cute.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
But then it has really a very, it does have a very specific connotation. The following, which I love.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Which I'm like, it's Anne Bancroft and The Graduate. Like that's what it feels like. There's like a cougary vibe. Yes. Instead, but I also think that there's kind of like a, because I don't, I mean, that's not who I am, but I guess it also means like, I don't know. What do you think it means?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Well, because it's a porn term probably by a lot of young men that have a fetish for fucking older women. Mothers.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Butt check and gut check. Butt check. It's not happening for you.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I know. It was like, well, I had a couple milfs. And it's like, oh, God.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Yeah, maybe because... Yeah, but it just feels like it's from the dude's point of view in, like, a gross, porny way.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Which I love so much. I love it so much. I love the very young queer women that are... felt really... like loved Agatha all along. Like that was such a huge part of our audience. That was very, very moving.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's cool. That's cool. And with Plaza. So it just could not be cooler.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I know I should be prepping before my diarrhea kicks in. I haven't asked to do that wings thing. You haven't and you're like, no. Absolutely not. I could say hate milk. This is going to be a disaster for you. No, it's going to be. Someone said peanut butter on toast beforehand. Line your stomach. The things we go through for press.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
How are we now eating spicy things? And spicier and spicier.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
But I also, there's something about it that I was like, yes. Yes. Because it just felt so, so unique that it just, I don't know, it's going to be hilarious.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Like, I'm like, am I going to vomit? Am I going to? I don't know. We actually do, that is actually Friday, but I have a lot of other stuff to, but I am, so I have a couple of days to prep my stomach.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
But like in reverse, because I think I got to line it as thick as possible. So there is no way. Like my throat down to my colon has to just be lined. With bread. Yogurt. Peanut butter and just bread shoved in there.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Yeah. I need a Pepsi. Okay, fans. No. You know, I mean, Marvel is a totally different machine. And I am so rarely recognized in my life. Like, yeah. you know, I just walk out like this. I don't think about it. So I'm like, you know, I had one meal with Carrie Kenny silver, who I love so much. And she, someone came up to our table and was like, sorry, I have to tell you, I love you.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And I think it's so hilarious. You go out of the house looking like this.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Actually, one of the most the thing I'm almost the most proud of.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
OK, when we were there was a bunch of the Parks and Rec actors. It was Paul, Rudd, you, Rashida, Adam.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And it was we had like businessy outfits on. I think we were going to court or something or like. So all of us had like very businessy. And I don't know whose idea was it, but we took a it was whose idea was it? But we were all in like kind of staggered stairs and what looked like the front of like a very, you know, a courthouse.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Like as the actress from it, is the pilot going to be picked up? Like we were going to do, like we were all very excited. It was like a David Kelly-esque show. So there was like some cachet. It wasn't like a shitty show.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Amy, please excuse her. She knows not what she's doing. Like Robert Durst when he's guilty.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Yeah. And the older and older I get, I feel like I just want that.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I mean, Catherine O'Hara, another goddess that I couldn't believe. We only have a couple scenes in it, but I have gotten to know her through the press thing, and she is, like we were saying, that's how I want to grow up.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Even though she's, you know, basically my aunt, but she is, I mean, on camera and not off camera, like just such a huge, a good egg. And it's Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Seth stars in it. And they both wrote all the episodes and directed all the episodes with like one shot. They're all like oners or some invisible seams. Yeah. Wow. I know.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
But it's really incredible because we rehearsed each scene like a play. Like we had to rehearse it a gazillion times with the camera and then know when the camera is going to be on you and know like when to get out of the way for the camera. One still like try to keep eye contact. It was, it was like a, the challenges were so fun and juicy.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And, and also you knew that if you fucked up one line in it, you'd have to go back to the beginning. So like the tension of everybody was, really added to the tension of this fictional studio, continental studios that Seth Rogen just became the head of and trying to save it. Like it can't keep it from the streamers and also the like balance between art and, um,
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
money, like block, but he, he's a lover of film that just wants to make like, you know, Fox catcher all the time. And they're like, you can't make it all the time. You have to make a Kool-Aid movie, you know? So it's like the, the tension between, and it's Ike Barinholtz is in it. Who's fricking hilarious. He's so good. The best chase. We wonders peach, hilarious.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And, uh, Brian Cranston has like, uh, recurring as the, um, the money guy on top of the studio. And who do you play? I play the market, the head of marketing.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
It is incredible. And I feel like there's a lot of humans in Hollywood that just dress label to label.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Got a girl at Saks who will bring the shit to the office and she tries it on at lunch, has a tab running, running tab at Saks. Nice. And also probably, you know, what is it? Delay that Dover street market. A lot of like street brands.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I remember that, right? Long, long nails. Yeah. And no personal life. So it's all feeling like a deep, empty hole. Yes. That she gets, that she just lives at her job.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I do too. Yeah. And it gives me a headache and also makes me feel like a little bit sick. The binging is too much. It's too much. It's too much. And you lose the. Yeah. Swallowed at that time. I was like three. I can't do three on your podcast. Yes. What is wrong with me?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I understand it. I understand it. The worst is when you're talking to someone and there's little white cream on the creases of their mouth. And then when they talk, you can hear like... And you just want to be like, slide them a glass of water.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
How badly do you have to pee? Not at all. I've been peeing this whole time. Oh, right. Next time I'm going to wear, just, I don't even know how it works.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Or have you ever seen the women's version of that? I haven't. When did you get it?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I know. It's nice. Maybe also sometimes if there's a questionable gas station restroom.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I've done that definitely in places that, like the national parks where you open the small one and it's just a hole.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
think we all have i mean what are you gonna do what are you gonna do seriously no no one wants a uti and you can't be like a man and pee in a bottle like a oh my god have you ever been there's some streets in new york city i know this is getting long but there's some streets in new york they're like like the arteries for getting off the bridges or whatever that if you walk down it's like filled coke bottles with urine
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Or wipe it off with a... And you're like, I know you just tried to wipe it off, but it's still there, bitch.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Well, last thing, growing up in Cleveland, we had faulty, what's it called? You know, when you flush a toilet. Oh, plumbing. Plumbing. Ah, age. But my dad had a sign above the toilet that said, poop flush, wipe flush. Because if you put the poop and the toilet paper in there, it would overflow immediately. Poop flush, wipe flush. Poop flush, wipe flush. I'm going to leave you with that.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
But I think these are important things to say. They are. They are.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
We don't talk about it, but these are. But also, just women, lastly, lift up the seat.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
My dog really cracks me up. He's such a little weenus. Everything. His name is Banjo and he's such an idiot. He has a, he's such a mutt and he has this tail that's always so high. So he's got a really aggressive asshole. And everything he does is so stupid that he makes me laugh so hard. He's a dingo. Like everything he does.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
What does he do? He'll get outside and he'll do laughs like back and forth as fast as he can from one side of the lawn to the other. Like he won't stop. And he, he'll just have, he has this corn cob that he can chew has a sound in it. And he'll just look at you and be like, like, and you hear the horn going on for so long. And so his anxiety is funny.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
He has had a cone on for a third of his life because he constantly is eating something or he'll look at you like, ah, there's this blood gushing out of his back leg. And we're like, Banjo! He licked the skin off of his own little paw because he just was stressed out. And then he keeps licking it. So he's had to. Yeah. So who would play Banjo in a movie if he was a human? Oh, it would be.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
It would be. He's got a lot of white male privilege. He is so blonde. It's not Patrick Schwarzenegger because he's really great, but he has a vibe.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I'll do whatever you say, but I can't, I forgot it already. His day focuses at five o'clock. That's the only thing he holds onto is dinner at five. Everything else is chaos. And all of a sudden at four 45, he's like, I love him so much.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I'm curious to see his, I'd love to see him read. I would love to see him read. I'd love to see him read. Can't wait to get the tape.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
How do you feel about it? Listen, I think that that's fine for him if he doesn't need one. But if you need one, screw it. This is your podcast.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Okay, okay, okay. If it's just there for evidence, maybe you don't.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Wait, is that the medical procedural? Okay, great. With a guy who's already been on a medical procedural. Okay, great. It's supposed to be great. It's so good.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I do because it's still figuring itself out. So I like it. I don't like, I it's better. It's more interesting than a well-oiled machine.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I do because it's like a, there is like a little on your toes feeling of, of, of growth that's happening while you're in it. And that always feels like super chargey to me. If it's like, I don't know, it's more, Like sometimes it's good and like, you know, that you're going to hit this, this and this. But I love conversations.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And I think and I know you do, too, that are like a little not so prescribed at the beginning.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Yes. It is uncomfortable sometimes, depending on what it really is, but just to sit in it and let it, like I'm not talking about a podcast, but like life or like schmacting.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
It's definitely like that in that kind of like uncomfortableness, I think is like, like the time that you're going to be surprised.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I would say between seven and 13. 10. 10. Okay. It's kind of right between. But it was such a huge impact on my life. Like it's still the thing I get most recognized for. Really? Yes. And I just remember, well, first of all, you were the most incredible number one on a call sheet because you had dance parties at lunch every day.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
And anybody that walked on that set just was filled with such confidence and such joy, which is, I had the greatest time on that show.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
If someone's going to break in a scene, it's this professional over here. You know. Do you think you break a lot? I have to be really serious in my mind. Because if it starts to happen, it is tears. Yeah. And mucus.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I know it's a survival technique. I just have to dig in a little bit. I do. I go harder.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
Well, I went to Ben and Leslie's house. I'm speaking as Jen Barkley, my character. I'm first person.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
A lot more hairspray. I went to their house. They have children. I am not into children at all. I wore a plastic poncho so that I wouldn't get any sticky fingers or crap all over me. And at some point, the kids rushed by with paint, nailed me with the paint. And at some take, just to make you guys laugh, I don't even, did not have any idea it was going to be any. I just swung my arms open.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I went, poncho, poncho. And that really has to be kind of like a thing. It's like Batman's cape. I mean. Oh, that was the best. Like I just wanting to make you guys laugh and just having so the energy is so loose. So I like, it's funny you say that I'm improvising again.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Kathryn Hahn
I can do it if I know who I am and like the given circumstances and like that, I feel like I feel really free in that department, but just.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
Well, I'm in my car. It's getting hotter and hotter, which is great. I just got my eyebrows done. And that's how much I love it is that I'm showing up in this outfit. In this face.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
What I love is his, like, the way he falls in love with the project and just has its back from the beginning. Like, I just love how he is so freaking loyal and faithful to the thing that he's doing that it really inspires everybody else to, like,
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
be as enthusiastic also there's never a he never lets the ball drop in any conversation like if it's an awkward table he will keep it up like the vibration is very high with Ike Barinholtz it's a very high vibration human being I think
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, thank you so much. What if you just see me just slumped to the side?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
Just the sun beating down from above. LA, baby. There it is.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
Like, where is she? God, is that a Vons? No, it's a Gels. I mean, I first was really introduced to him. I know he had like such a huge body of work before this, but was on your podcast, Amy. That character that he played on with Dr. Sheila was so freaking brilliant, like so dropped in. I really dig it. I also dig his height and his father. Yes.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
I'm sure you know this, but I would love to know what in the birth order in his family, where he falls and how that influenced him, um, uh, as a comedian and where that all started from for him.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
That's something I would love to hear about what that is. And also, I feel like they all live here. So he has these huge Sunday dinners with everybody all the time. And it feels like It just feels so wholesome over there that just kind of like a Sunday roast with all your relatives coming over.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Ike Barinholtz
Like it sounds like, I mean, it's so far from what my Sundays, my family spread out all over the country, but I always feel like a, like a tenderness towards that. It feels really sweet.