Kim Rosenstock
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45 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Kim Rosenstock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We did the scene that's from the podcast where she pees on a guy in a bathtub and like she had a rig taped to her leg. And then you're just like, I can't believe that like I'm doing this. I can't believe that this is my job.
Apologies ahead of time. We're so lucky to be stuck with you. You are such an amazing part of this community.
I feel like it's hard for me to realize how long we've been friends. It's that moment in our lives where we're like, oh, wait a second, we've known each other for like 20 years. Wow. And Kim was such a huge part of New Girl. And she had, you know, written some of the
best episodes and I thought of her immediately when I thought of who I wanted to do it with just because she has this amazing sense of tone, like that something can be both funny and heartbreaking. But also Kim is the reason I have an agent. We were friends in New York and she was working at a theater and she was working for a literary manager who went off to have a baby.
And she was in charge of the theater for a little bit and called me and said, do you have a play to do a reading of? And I lied and said, yes.
I had nothing to lose.
And I went off and wrote a play, and then we did a reading of it, and that's how I got an agent. So I actually owe, like, my entire career to Kim. But yes, okay. So anyway, that's our history, but I feel like that was incredibly... important going into this project, which obviously it's so much about friends who have been together for a long time through a lot of different parts of their lives.
I mean, I think that was what drew us both in, Nikki, was you and Molly sort of talking about How many, you know, men and careers and places and just all these different things that you guys have gone through together. I don't know, like an old friend knows you in a way that I think sometimes even like your spouse doesn't know.
You know, like an old friend has like known you for so much of your life. It's such an important relationship. It was one of my favorite parts of the podcast, just like the celebration of that.
A producer friend sent it to me, just a description of it. I was immediately like, this is for me. Just that it was about death and sex. I find I'm really drawn to surprising combinations of stories. And then I just completely binged it. And then the next day I was trying to get the rights to it. Really? That's my story.
Yeah. I was wearing shoulder pads and I was like, get me Nikki Boyer on line three. I do remember the first time I met you because it was the last meeting I had before COVID. But we were kind of like, ah, what's this about? Like, well, you know, this will blow over.
Yeah. And then once we met and sort of decided to do it together, I reached out to Kim because I was still working on the dropout and I needed like a partner on it. And Kim, is that when you listened to it for the first time?
I mean, there was so much amazing stuff and there is still stuff that I really wish we could have had on the show. The tickle guy in particular. I think about him all the time. I'm so mad that we had to cut it. He almost made it. He was so close. He was so close to being hot.
So, yeah, I mean, with anything that you're adapting, there are things that you just kick yourself about not being able to include. You know, we talked a lot about how are we going to understand what's happening for Molly now? while she's having sex or having these moments with these guys, but still also really tell Nikki's story too.
And we actually had voiceover in originally and then took it out and then it came back. I think at some point our director, Shannon Murphy, was kind of like, it doesn't matter what the rules are. You just have to kind of get the story out.
No, you didn't. We were really testing the limits of what we. Nikki, there are some things that like were, it'd be better that you like just didn't hear about.
How cool would that have been, though? You would see, you would, like, be inside Molly's body.
I just also want to say, Nikki, you gave us like an enormous amount of freedom and grace of just like being able to.
kind of make mistakes but also kind of needing to do our own work on who the characters are and there's some big differences between the Nikki character in the show and you and also Molly you know there are differences but I think our North Star was the spirit of Molly in the podcast like how do we get the spirit of what she was trying to find in herself and into the show.
The other thing I wanted to just like pinpoint is how hard we worked on that first scene in front of the bodega where Molly tells Nikki that she has cancer. I think that kind of encapsulates how hard the sort of tone of the show was. And it was like, okay, we are starting this show with a scene where one woman tells her best friend that she has cancer, but it needs to be funny.
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