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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

Next up this week is Kristen Maliade.

She's an actor, she's been in a lot of stuff lately.

The HBO show made for love in the peacock series, The Lizort.

She has also appeared on FX's Fargo and in the Wolf of Wall Street.

When we talk with her on Bullseye, she just starred in 2020's Palm Springs.

In that movie, Kristen plays Sarah, opposite Niles, who's played by Andy Sandberg.

Palm Springs is a bit of a hard film to describe.

It's a romantic comedy.

It's also a movie about a time loop, like Groundhog Day or Russian Doll.

There's some action that one point Niles gets chased by a guy with a crossbow.

The crossbow guy is also stuck in the time loop.

But Palm Springs is more than just a clever premise.

It's really funny and it ends up being about relationships and depression and also just

what it means to be alive.

Well into Holmes, the host of NPR's pop culture happy hour, conducted our interview.

You'll also hear the two of them talk about Kristen's roles on shows like How I Met Your

Mother, 30 Rock and in the Tony Award-winning Broadway show Once.

But first, here's a scene from near the beginning of Palm Springs.

Sarah has just met Niles.

Niles is smooth-talking, weirdly overconfident, and dating another woman, whose name is

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