Kathryn Hahn

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

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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	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.4	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.8	Katherine Hahn is an actor.
0:25.3	She's been in comedy films like Step Brothers, the Anchorman movies, many more.
0:30.5	On TV she starred in the NBC show Crossing Jordan.
0:34.6	She was also on Parks and Rec.
0:36.1	She played Jennifer Barclay, the political consultant.
0:39.2	She played a rabbi on the TV show Transparent.
0:42.2	She starred in her own HBO drama called Mrs. Fletcher.
0:46.0	I guess what I'm saying is she has range.
0:49.7	And here's an example.
0:51.0	She has an amazing supporting role on WandaVision, the bonkers news show on Disney+.
0:57.8	I'm not going to spend a ton of time explaining the plot of WandaVision.
1:02.3	It's set in the Marvel Universe.
1:04.6	Sometimes requires some prior knowledge.
1:07.6	It stars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Wanda Maximoff and Vision, respectively.
1:14.1	The two of them are superheroes who have settled down in a New Jersey suburb where
1:18.8	wouldn't you know it, not everything is what it seems.
1:22.5	Katherine Hahn plays their neighbor Agnes, who's also hiding some secrets.
1:26.5	The show has really taken off lately thanks in part to a very fun meme where Katherine
1:31.8	Hahn winks.
1:33.0	Anyway, when she and I talked in 2017, she just starred in I Love Dick, a TV show based
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