Kristen Wiig talks 'Palm Royale,' life post 'Saturday Night Live' and what's next in her career. Plus, fashion shoot. PHOTOS
high society community in the ’60s. Wiig and costars Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Carol Burnett, Josh Lucas and Ricky Martin are straight out of a Slim Aarons photo as they down grasshopper cocktails in sherbet-colored frocks between tennis lessons, affairs and plenty of gossip.
It’s hard to imagine anyone but Wiig playing Maxine, but Dern was originally supposed to be in the role, after spending years developing the show from the book. When it came time to shoot, Dern’s schedule prevented her from taking on the character , and she called Wiig, pitching her both the role and coming on board as a producer.
“There was something about her endless optimism and cluelessness and unlikeability with the other characters, there was something about that that I really loved,” she continues. “Her wanting such shallow things, it’s very easy to not like her, but the show centers around her, so we have to have people like her and root for her.
The year before she left “Saturday Night Live,” she starred in the hit comedy “Bridesmaids,” and post-“SNL,” Wiig has been working nonstop, in films like “Wonder Woman 1984,” the “Despicable Me” movies, “Ghostbusters,” and “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.” She’s talked for years about wanting to direct someday, and that remains a goal, with it ideally being something she’d write. She’s “trying to discipline” herself to write this summer while between projects.
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