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By Sara Vilkomerson Updated April 14, 2015 at 08:22 PM EDT
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Kristen Wiig was nervous when Welcome to Me premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. “We knew it was strange,” she says. “We were like, ‘Well, people are either going to walk out or….'”
Bill Murray, who was there, called the film one of the boldest and—yes—strangest comedies he’s ever seen. “I think that’s a compliment,” says Wiig with a laugh. In Welcome to Me , directed by Shira Piven—co-starring Linda Cardellini, Tim Robbins, Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack, and James Marsden—Wiig plays Alice Kleig, a woman with a borderline personality disorder who wins $86 million in the lottery and decides to buy her own talk show. “I knew I wanted to do it as soon as I read it,” says Wiig, who was intrigued by Alice’s complexities. “You kind of want to hate her, you feel sorry for her, you’re embarrassed by her, but you can’t stop watching what she’s doing.”
The movie puts Wiig into plenty of uncomfortable situations: Alice demands to arrive on set in a giant swan boat, she spends a segment eating meatloaf cake, she has a dramatic breakdown. But it was the scene where Alice walks naked through a casino that intimidated the actress the most. “That scared me because I knew if I did the movie I’d have to do that scene,” she says. “I didn’t want to say yes and then take that scene out. I just thought it was important to the story and the character—so the thinking was if I make this movie then I have to do the scene where I’m totally naked.”
But, Wiig adds, it wasn’t just the nudity that frightened her. “She’s also very emotional and you don’t want to make fun of her. You’re talking about borderline personality disorder and you have to respect that. You don’t want to offend anybody. You just want to do the right thing.”
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By
JOSEPH BAXTER
published April 15, 2015
As Kristen Wiig continues to expand her post- Saturday Night Live career with an eclectic range of projects, there is one moment in her upcoming film, Welcome to Me, where she goes even further, with a nude scene. It wasn’t something for which she actively campaigned, however, the Bridesmaids and future Ghostbusters star revealed her thinking behind showing some skin.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Kristen Wiig discusses the bizarre nuances of her character in the experimental dramedy, Welcome to Me . The film, about a mentally unstable woman who wins an $86 million lottery, becomes a tour de force of nouveau riche ridiculousness. Most notably, it also includes a scene where Wiig appears sans clothing walking through a casino. Why would a comedian of her caliber do that? Well, as Wiig explains:
I didn’t want to say yes and then take that scene out. I just thought it was important to the story and the character—so the thinking was if I make this movie then I have to do the scene where I’m totally naked.
Wiig felt that the scene in question , which will earn her a place in the Mr. Skin database, was integral to the arc of her role. Her character is designed to evoke a bizarre mix of emotions from the audience, being both offensive and pitiable. In fact, Wiig was actually reluctant to take the nude scene because she was afraid that the act of exhibitionism was done in a way to make fun the character’s mental disorder. However, it was apparently done in a way that was tasteful enough to alleviate those fears.
In the film, Kristen Wiig plays a woman named Alice Kleig, who suffers from borderline personality disorder, a mental malady that’s typically marked with impulsive acts and over-the-top behavior believed to compensate for fears of abandonment and irrelevance. Winning $86 million, Alice avoids the prudent course of investing in a solid nest egg, or even donationing to benevolent causes. Instead, in a testament to her state of mind, her knee-jerk choice is to toss millions of dollars at a TV network to get her own gaudy talk show in the hope of becoming famous. Her show becomes a bizarre spectacle, kicking-off with her arrival on a giant swan boat, filled with moments of her starring vacuously into the camera, and the gluttonous gulping of a giant meatloaf cake.
In that sense, Alice serves as the embodiment of the rampant narcissism rampant across the culture. The aforementioned in-the-buff display of public exhibitionism seems to be an important contribution the character’s mindset as both a moment of liberation and a desperate cry for attention. Yet, as Wiig also observes, while "you kind of want to hate her, you feel sorry for her." Adding, "you’re embarrassed by her, but can’t stop watching what she’s doing." In other words, she's the epitome of the "famous for being famous" subculture.
Welcome to Me , which debuted last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, features an impressive array of co-stars, like James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Wes Bentley. The film hits theaters in the United States on May 8.
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By
JOSEPH BAXTER
published April 15, 2015
As Kristen Wiig continues to expand her post- Saturday Night Live career with an eclectic range of projects, there is one moment in her upcoming film, Welcome to Me, where she goes even further, with a nude scene. It wasn’t something for which she actively campaigned, however, the Bridesmaids and future Ghostbusters star revealed her thinking behind showing some skin.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Kristen Wiig discusses the bizarre nuances of her character in the experimental dramedy, Welcome to Me . The film, about a mentally unstable woman who wins an $86 million lottery, becomes a tour de force of nouveau riche ridiculousness. Most notably, it also includes a scene where Wiig appears sans clothing walking through a casino. Why would a comedian of her caliber do that? Well, as Wiig explains:
I didn’t want to say yes and then take that scene out. I just thought it was important to the story and the character—so the thinking was if I make this movie then I have to do the scene where I’m totally naked.
Wiig felt that the scene in question , which will earn her a place in the Mr. Skin database, was integral to the arc of her role. Her character is designed to evoke a bizarre mix of emotions from the audience, being both offensive and pitiable. In fact, Wiig was actually reluctant to take the nude scene because she was afraid that the act of exhibitionism was done in a way to make fun the character’s mental disorder. However, it was apparently done in a way that was tasteful enough to alleviate those fears.
In the film, Kristen Wiig plays a woman named Alice Kleig, who suffers from borderline personality disorder, a mental malady that’s typically marked with impulsive acts and over-the-top behavior believed to compensate for fears of abandonment and irrelevance. Winning $86 million, Alice avoids the prudent course of investing in a solid nest egg, or even donationing to benevolent causes. Instead, in a testament to her state of mind, her knee-jerk choice is to toss millions of dollars at a TV network to get her own gaudy talk show in the hope of becoming famous. Her show becomes a bizarre spectacle, kicking-off with her arrival on a giant swan boat, filled with moments of her starring vacuously into the camera, and the gluttonous gulping of a giant meatloaf cake.
In that sense, Alice serves as the embodiment of the rampant narcissism rampant across the culture. The aforementioned in-the-buff display of public exhibitionism seems to be an important contribution the character’s mindset as both a moment of liberation and a desperate cry for attention. Yet, as Wiig also observes, while "you kind of want to hate her, you feel sorry for her." Adding, "you’re embarrassed by her, but can’t stop watching what she’s doing." In other words, she's the epitome of the "famous for being famous" subculture.
Welcome to Me , which debuted last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, features an impressive array of co-stars, like James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Wes Bentley. The film hits theaters in the United States on May 8.
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