Kristen Wiig

Fresh Air

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The SNL alum co-stars with Carol Burnett in Palm Royale, an Apple TV+ series about a former pageant queen who wants to break into high society. Wiig talked with Ann Marie Baldonado about working with Burnett, the rush of SNL, and co-writing the mega hit movie Bridesmaids.

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0:00.0	Bridgeton is back and the Netflix series is as gosy and over the top as ever.
0:06.0	I love the dialogue as ridiculous as it is sometimes.
0:10.0	Same.
0:11.0	We're talking about the romance and the clothes and the nudity and obviously the
0:16.7	Queen's hair. Listen to the pop culture happy hour podcast from NPR.
0:22.0	This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley.
0:26.4	Our guest is comedian actor and screenwriter Kristen Whig.
0:30.2	She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series for her work on Saturday Night Live and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for her 2011 film Brideades. Now she stars in the new Apple TV Plus series called
0:46.4	Palm Royale. Kristen Wigg recently spoke to Fresh Air's Anne Marie Baldonado.
0:51.4	On the TV show Palm Royale, Kristen Wigg plays Maxine,
0:56.0	a former pageant queen who wants more than anything
1:00.0	to break into the upper echelons of high society.
1:03.3	It's Palm Beach, Florida, in the late 1960s,
1:07.0	and everyone who's important belongs to the Palm Beach Country Club.
1:10.9	Outsiders are kept out, but Maxine is determined to become a
1:15.2	socialite living a charmed life. In this scene from the first episode, she
1:20.4	sneaks in, tries to pass, but gets found out, questioned, and asked to leave.
1:26.0	How did you get past security?
1:28.0	I came in the back.
1:30.0	There are no doors on the back of the palm-royo?
1:32.0	I never said I use the door. There are no doors on the back of the Palm Royale?
1:32.8	I never said I use the door.
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