Renée Elise Goldsberry: From ‘Hamilton’ to ‘Girls5eva’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Despite never really doing comedy before ‘Girls5eva,’ Renée Elise Goldsberry has managed to steal nearly every scene she’s been in over the two seasons of that show’s initial run on Peacock and third, which arrives with a splash on Netflix this week. In this episode, the Tony and Grammy Award winning actor reveals what it was like to find her comedic voice as the self-obsessed diva Wickie Roy, including how the character has inspired her to become more ambitious in her own career and the parallels between mastering Tina Fey’s brand of rapid-fire jokes and learning to rap for her role as Angelica Schyuler in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton.’ Goldsberry talks about getting cut out of Fey and Amy Poehler’s movie ‘Sisters,’ meeting co-star Paula Pell in their musical episode ‘Documentary Now’ and why she would be “shocked” if there wasn’t a fourth season of ‘Girls5eva’ coming to Netflix in the near future.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:09.0 | When I first heard that Renee Elise Goldsbury was going to be in this new show about a 90s girl group that attempts a comeback from 30 rock creators Tina Faye and Robert Carlock, |
| 0:20.6 | I assumed she was primarily there |
| 0:23.4 | for her musical prowess. But over the course of two seasons as Wiki Roy on Girls 5 Eva, |
| 0:30.5 | Renee consistently managed to be the funniest character on screen, not in an easy feat on a show that |
| 0:36.5 | also features previous Last |
| 0:38.1 | Laugh guest and certified comedic genius Paula Pell. So now that Girls 5Eva is about to make |
| 0:45.1 | its big move from Peacock to Netflix, where starting tomorrow you can stream the first two seasons, |
| 0:51.1 | as well as the brand new third season, I was so thrilled that Renee agreed to be |
| 0:56.0 | my guest on this week's show. And she did not disappoint. We not only went deep on how she found |
| 1:02.9 | her comedic voice after 50, but also got into what is undoubtedly the role of her lifetime |
| 1:08.8 | as Angelica Skyler in Hamilton, which won her both |
| 1:12.8 | a Tony and Grammy Award in 2016. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm hoping I didn't gush too much over that performance, but I'm pretty sure I did. |
| 1:22.1 | Before we get into our conversation, here's a clip of a rare girls' five of a live performance that Renee did alongside her co-stars, Sarah Borellis, Busy Phillips, and Paula Pell at last week's New York premiere. |
| 1:37.3 | Low wise teens with a one-tooth zipper, eyebrows thin, bronza thicker, whale tail peeking, ready for the weekend and our eyes are all over you boy. |
| 1:47.0 | We're dream girlfriends because our dads are dead, so you never have to meet them and get asked why you left school. |
| 1:58.0 | Dream girlfriends, no pushback because our moms are over tired and hoping for the best |
| 2:08.6 | we've got the kind of birth control that goes in your arm and tell me again why Tarantino's a genius |
| 2:18.3 | He'll never want to wake up from us |
| 2:30.3 | Gonna be famous by never, cause forever's too short, too sure, gonna be famous five ever, cause forever's too short, too short. |
| 2:37.0 | Gonna be famous together, cause that's one more than together. |
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