Q & A: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson on Improv, Line Delivery and the Evolution of ‘Sweet Dee’
Kaitlin: “I think it’s really important on our show to have either a natural improvising ability or an improv background”
Kaitlin: “I think it’s really important on our show to have either a natural improvising ability or an improv background”
Elizabeth: “I’m really interested in trying to create a long career for my entire life”
Christopher talks about his audition for the show, working with the cast and how he crashed on Charlie Hunnam’s place because he hadn’t moved to LA yet!
Chris: “I like the challenge of no live audience because I can try and make the crew laugh”
Danny DeVito: “If the audience accepts you in the different genres, then I think you’re really fortunate to go back and forth”
Damon: “When you become an actor, you just get more and more insecure”
Kathy’s biggest challenge: “absorbing the lines and digesting them so that the lines disappear and Harry takes their place”
Barrett Foa and Renee Felice Smith talk auditioning and if they feel like they have job security even though they are on a top-rated show
Kristen: “I love playing the bad girl. I think she’s a lot more fun to play”
Ed: “I think that the characters that I play are just sort of a heightened version of myself”
Maya: “It’s actually more challenging to give a character a real life and longevity”
Theo: “Kurt [Sutter] seriously gives so much info to the actors and he’s so great being an actor himself that he helps create the role”
Odette: “I feel so lucky thus far in my career not to have been stereotyped”
Martha: “There’s a lot to learn about working on a show that shoots 22 episodes a year”
Vincent: “I finished my last lines and it was like, I couldn’t remember doing the scene”
Jason: “I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they’re doing”
Rob on his weight gain: “I would literally eat six to eight donuts everyday through production. That was amazing. I will not lie to you”
John: “I have big ideas because I have big ideas about the character”
Hank and Kathryn talk about why they came back to TV, working together and if Hank’s role in The Birdcage was really based on his Grandmother
LL: “I try to do the majority of my stunts because I want people to know that I’m invested in the character”