Here, Hall looks back on the parts that brought her to chaos' doorstep, fromScary MovietoGirls Trip.
“I can’t dance.
“I had a friend who’d stripped.
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She was like, ‘Just go in and smack your ass!'”
Hall listened, but producers cut her off, and she bailed.
Still, Hall landed the role, later training with a real dancer.
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“That girl’s still inside of me, just a lot more layered,” she says.
And Hall might be a star now, but has the dancing improved?
Nope: “That might’ve gotten worse!”
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But she never envisioned herself playing for broad laughs.
“They were just all ridiculous, those characters!
It was so fun…. People started thinkingIwas a comedian!
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It opened a door for comedy, which helped my career.”
“We’d do our scenes and it was a lot of fun….
I had a lot of laughs with Gabrielle, too.
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I remember ease from that movie.
No stress,” she says.
“Tim had a very easy hand.
“As women, we don’t see it [in film]….
When girlfriends talk, we use the d-word!”
She prophesied the film’s success long before cameras ever rolled.
“I was having a psychic moment.
I’m sure he was like, ‘Oh my God, she’s crazy!'”
Hall says of her first meeting with director Andrew Bujalski.
“I started getting some intuitive thoughts.
[I was like] ‘These must be your gods talking!'”
“Isawthe world,” she says of reading the script.
“My character gets to be her own woman with her own drive, ambition, and ruthlessness.
But one thing was certain: She knew she needed an absurd wig to match the tone.
“Yuba County needed a stylist.
They were definitely dated, but I loved that!”
