Michaela Watkins on You Hurt My Feelings, SNL and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Michaela Watkins is a talented comic and actor. But when she first started acting, she thought she was going to be an actor actor. The Shakespeare and Ibsen-performing type. But it wasn't A Doll's House or King Lear that made her career. It was the Groundlings. She was almost thirty when she joined the comedy theater that changed the course of her life. Watkins was cast on Saturday Night Live during her time with the group. She thought she'd made it. nine months later, she was fired after one season. But, she's only kept growing. Now, twenty-five years into her career, Watkins is still finding new highs. This year, she's starring in three movies. The latest is an A24 film called You Hurt My Feelings. On Bullseye this week, Michaela Watkins joins us to talk about You Hurt My Feelings. She reminisces on her time in the Groundlings and chats about an awkward encounter with Seth Myers after being fired from SNL. Plus, she answers the question we've all been asking: what does Michaela Watkins ask her pet psychic?

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Ford.
0:21.4	McKellan Watkins thought she was going to become an actor actor, like a serious actor,
0:27.6	Shakespeare, and Ibsen, and that kind of thing.
0:30.7	She got an acting degree, she did regional theater, but it didn't turn out to be a doll's
0:37.8	house or kinglier that made her career.
0:41.8	It was the ground links.
0:43.6	She was almost 30 when she moved to LA and joined the comedy theater that changed the
0:47.8	course of her life.
0:50.0	And five or eight years later, when she got cast on Saturday Night Live, she thought
0:54.6	she'd made it.
0:56.0	Finally, in her late 30s after 20 years in the game, then nine months after that, she
1:04.0	was out on the street, fired after one season.
1:08.6	But McKellan and her career have only kept growing.
1:13.5	She started writing, she sold a pilot, she got parts, then she got bigger parts, prestige
1:18.8	TV, movie roles.
1:21.0	Now 25 years into her career, she's still finding new highs.
1:25.4	This year, she's starring in three movies, three.
1:29.8	The latest of those is you hurt my feelings, which was written and directed by the Great
1:33.8	Nicole Hall of Center.
1:35.6	Watkins stars alongside Julia Louis Dreyfus.
1:38.8	They play sisters.
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