Kathryn Hahn

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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It Was Kathryn Hahn All Along! Kathryn Hahn shows up just when you need her most in some of our favorite television series and movies of the past 15 years! She's appeared in Step Brothers and Anchorman, in Parks and Recreation as political whiz Jennifer Barkley, as Rabbi Raquel Fein in Transparent and she stole the show in the recent Marvel hit WandaVision on Disney+ as nosy neighbor Agnes. She can do drama, comedy, action villain—she pretty much does it all! When she joined us in 2017 she was starring opposite Kevin Bacon in the Joey Soloway adaptation of the Chris Kraus novel, I Love Dick. Kathryn talks to Bullseye with Jesse Thorn about tapping into her own obsessions to get into character, playing complicated women and how her children helped strengthen her creativity. Plus, she'll tell us about that time she had a crush on Jesus Christ!

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0:00.0	This is Eric Glass.
0:01.5	On This American Life, we like stories that surprise you.
0:04.2	For instance, imagine finding a new hobby and realizing...
0:07.2	To do this hobby right, according to the ways of the masters,
0:11.7	there's a pretty good chance that you're going to have to bend the law
0:14.8	to get the materials that you need.
0:16.6	If not, break it.
0:17.5	Yeah.
0:18.5	To break international laws.
0:20.8	Your life stories, really good ones.
0:23.1	This American Life.
0:25.5	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.5	Hey!
0:36.8	Hey! It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:46.8	Catherine Hahn is an actor.
0:49.2	She's been in comedy films like Stepbrothers, the Anchorman movies, many more.
0:56.9	On TV, she's starred in the NBC show Crossing Jordan. She was also on Parks and Rec. She played Jennifer Barclay, the political consultant.
1:03.0	She played a rabbi on the TV show Transparent. She starred in her own HBO drama called
1:08.3	Mrs. Fletcher. I guess what I'm saying is she has range.
1:13.4	And here's an example. She has an amazing supporting role on Wanda Vision, the bonkers new show
1:20.0	on Disney Plus. I'm not going to spend a ton of time explaining the plot of Wanda Vision.
1:26.1	It's set in the Marvel universe, sometimes requires some
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