Molly Shannon: ‘Hello, Molly!’

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes back actress Molly Shannon, who is currently starring in the Showtime series “I Love That for You” and has written a memoir “Hello, Molly!” Shannon, a “Saturday Night Live” alum, has also recently appeared in the HBO series “The White Lotus” and “The Other Two.” Shannon, who lost her mother and sister in a car accident as a young girl, tells The Treatment she began her memoir with the accident because it deeply impacted the direction of her life. She talks about the genesis of her SNL Catholic school girl character Mary Katherine Gallagher. And she says her father was her biggest cheerleader and her first acting teacher.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.4	Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition.
0:16.9	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:18.4	And my guest, since she was last here, has gone on to do such things as, well, make another show with Mike White.
0:26.9	She's, we saw her, of course, in The White Lotus and her most recent show.
0:32.1	Now on Showtime, I love that for you.
0:34.5	She's working with Vanessa Bayer.
0:36.4	But, of course, she's been in such films as where she's last here for other people.
0:41.0	She reunited with the writer-director of that for a TV show, the other two.
0:46.7	She's been very busy.
0:48.4	In addition, everything else, my guest, Molly Shannon, has a book, Hello, Molly, a memoir.
0:53.3	So let me say, hello, Molly.
0:56.6	I like that.
0:57.7	Hello, Elvis.
0:59.4	Oh, my gosh, this book is so much fun.
1:01.3	And as I was reading it, and I saw the name Madeline Olnick, I went, wait a second.
1:06.7	Did she direct Molly in a movie?
1:09.3	She did.
1:10.1	She directed me in Wild Nights with Emily, a movie that she wrote.
1:14.8	Exactly.
1:15.6	And why do you tell the story?
1:17.0	I mean, because that story, first of all, these stories, I don't know how you sort of call the ones that you use because they're all, they basically kind of build this, this mosaic of Molly Shannon.
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