Molly Shannon

Then I came back in and slid on chairs and just under my breath went superstar.

for my friend at home watching to make her laugh.

So we just threw it in the back and said that we kept it in as like a refrain.

Yes, exactly.

And it's also... I'm so proud of it.

And it's a representation of my childhood of overcoming hard stuff and still having resilience and hope and maybe stumbling and falling and maybe looks like she's not going to make it.

And then they rise above the wreckage.

It's a repeated dance of those themes.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah, it's like healing.

Yeah.

I would do the character on stage.

I remember a friend came once and they said, oh, that character, the schoolgirl, or was it a schoolgirl then, Mary Katherine Gallagher, she seems angry.

I was like, angry, really?

I thought, oh, that's interesting.

But because the original scene was just a girl auditioning to try to be in a David Lynch movie and we would just improvise it.

And I'd be like, no, no, you're not understanding.

And I have to prove myself and get this person to, you know, like me and cast me.

And so it's just a little exercise in trying to be seen and understood.