Kathryn Hahn On Birth, Politics And 'Private Life'

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Kathryn Hahn dazzled audiences in one of the biggest streaming hits of the year, WandaVision— and she just earned an Emmy nom for her performance. In this conversation with her from 2019, she and Sam talk about her film 'Private Life,' balancing politics in her work, and the nature of birth.

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0:00.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:01.9	I'm Sam Sanders and today I'm bringing back one of my favorite interviews on this show ever.
0:08.7	I love it because it's a little weird.
0:11.3	I spoke with the one and only Katherine Han back in 2019.
0:16.2	And in the years since our lovely chat, she has entered what some have called the Hanna Sons.
0:21.8	She starred in the HBO series Mrs. Fletcher and she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in WandaVision.
0:28.4	And for that performance, she just received an Emmy nomination.
0:32.3	Also, Katherine Han is going to be in the sequel to one of my favorite films of the last few years.
0:38.7	Knives out too. I cannot wait.
0:41.2	Alright, so in this chat, we talk about her work in a film called Private Life.
0:45.6	It's this movie about a couple trying and failing to have a child.
0:49.9	But we also go really deep on birth in general in this chat and trust me.
0:54.7	You want to hear it.
0:55.7	Also, we talk about political life versus work life, our mutual love for obscure Christian children's music.
1:02.8	All that and more with Katherine Han. I just I just love this chat. You all enjoy it.
1:09.1	I'm researching you getting ready for the interview and I find out that we have a thing in common, a very strange weird thing in common.
1:15.3	We have both played in our youth salty, this thing in song book.
1:19.0	I'm an a person in a sterical tears right now, yes, because I was under the impression all these years that that was written strictly for say and
1:27.5	and elementary school.
1:28.6	Oh, ma'am. I've played it at St. James Catholic School in Seguin, Texas.
1:33.2	What are you talking about?
1:35.8	I have never met a salty PSALTY.
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