- No heels for me. [laughs]
My heel days were over.
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"The House Bunny", 2008.
I remember going to set every day and just feeling like,
I can't believe this is happening.
I had 72 wardrobe changes,
and worked with the brilliant Mona May.
She had the dressing room for our first fitting
all in pink couches, heart pillows.
The whole thing was for me to feel like I was in character,
and she gave me this super platinum wig to wear.
We had to do a lot of construction on the bra element.
Oftentimes, I would be sewn into my wardrobe,
and very frequently, in order to hide the mic,
they had to attach it to my very upper thigh,
which means that antenna,
you're very aware of the antenna,
let's just put it like that, mom, okay.
I brought these to share with you.
Every person should have a pair of these shoes.
They make you feel all powerful.
I'm lucky enough that Mona gave me, I think, four pairs.
These are life changing, guys.
I think I had never shown that much of my body,
and at first, I remember feeling like,
I'm the lead of this movie, and I'm a producer on it.
Sometimes, crew tends to think of you
as your character a little bit.
I just was uncomfortable feeling so skimpy, I guess,
but then, something happened.
Somewhere along the way,
I felt really good wearing those clothes.
I didn't know that that was a part of my personality.
It was really fun.
It was a life-changing movie for me
in a lot of different ways.
I look back on that time with so much love.
It was just really special.
"Just Friends", 2005.
Alexandra Welker, who is just brilliant,
gave me the most outrageous costumes,
and it helped me play one
of the worst people certainly I've ever played,
and it was so much fun, and look what I brought.
Dun, da-da dun, da-da dun.
Daddy, we're down.
Samantha James.
Oh God, I love her.
Mm, get outta my way.
The director, Roger Kumble, who I adore,
he wanted to really expand.
Samantha, initially, was written as simply bratty, I think,
and spoiled, and he wanted to make her crazy,
and I was on board. [giggles]
It was a blast, Darla.
Alexandra immediately brought her brilliance to the table,
and as soon as, I mean, she found the most amazing pieces
and made it incredibly easy for me,
and once I saw the wardrobe,
I was like, oh yeah, this is on, love it.
I loved this coat, so I got to keep it.
I didn't steal it, I promise.
I had my rocker look [laughs]
in my opening scene of the movie.
Everything was outlandish and entitled with her.
I mean, this feels like just the beginning
of all the fur.
There's a scene where I had these crazy ear muffs on
that made me feel incredibly childish.
The character's incredibly obnoxious.
She's like a pop star who has a rich dad or whatever.
If you haven't been to Regina, Saskatchewan
in January and in a cold studio
with shaving cream covering your breasts,
then you just haven't lived.
"Scary Movie", 2000.
This was my first movie,
and it was my first audition in Los Angeles.
I auditioned for "Scary Movie", sent in the tape,
they asked me if I'd be willing to fly myself down,
[chuckles] so I did, I used my mom's miles,
and I got the job.
I was terrified.
My college roommate said, "Oh God, Anna, you're not funny."
And I said, "I know, I know."
But turns out, my face is really active
is what I've discovered. [laughs]
I auditioned as the bleach blonde that I am.
They told me immediately that I needed to get my hair dyed,
so I said, can it be like licorice black?
I want it so black.
I've always wanted to win an award,
just so I can publicly thank Keenen Ivory Wayans
for casting me in "Scary Movie".
I didn't even have an agent at that time,
I didn't have a headshot.
I'm so grateful for him trusting in me
and for him kind of teaching me what this process was,
so thank you, Keenen Ivory Wayans.
"The Dictator", 2012.
Oh, man.
I played Zoey.
My character owned a natural food store
that was also fairly disgusting.
We actually shot in a real natural food store that was.
I don't know if I would personally shop there, necessarily,
and I'm not afraid of much.
I've never had food poisoning,
'cause I have a stomach made out of iron.
I wore a short brown wig and baggy overalls,
baggy everything, and I grew out my armpit hair.
Soon as I was cast, they said,
oh yeah, would you grow out your armpit hair?
And I said, sure, yeah, cool.
I don't know why I was this delusional.
I sort of thought it would come in kind of wispy and blonde,
like, you know.
I hadn't seen it since ever, really.
We were shooting summertime in New York,
so there's lots of tank tops and whatnot.
My hair was not gentle and blonde and wispy, it was gnarly.
It was long and curly, but not like full curl, it was like,
and it was dark, and I had mixed feelings about it.
So as soon as I was wrapped, I went home,
we wrapped at like six in the morning, we had a long day,
and I was in the shower, and I was like, I'm wrapped, baby.
Well, it wasn't quite that fast,
it was a lot more like this for a while.
But it was a great life experience.
Hailing a cab, being a bleach blonde in New York
with an amazing statement.
"The Estate", 2022.
I play a character named Savannah,
who swears a lot and has some really dumb ideas,
but she's very sincere, she's gonna get this money.
Dana Embree was our costume designer.
When Toni and I arrived,
we had like one day of prep before shooting,
and Dana was so brilliant.
She had such a strong vision.
I mean, all my clothes were vintage.
I wish I could have kept some.
It makes our job so much easier
when a costume designer has a great, strong vision.
Even if it's not exactly what you had planned for,
I love that kind of collaboration,
because it gives me so much clarity,
and the idea of, I think a lot of actors might be like this,
but the idea of shoes,
because it affects your whole posture,
your whole drive for the day,
she gave me these, I don't know, these old, beat up,
cheap boots, and I just lived in those.
It was awesome, no heels for me. [laughs]
My heel days were over.
I loved playing this character, though.
She was just unabashedly shameless,
but there's a liberation in that.
We had the most amazing cast on "The Estate".
It was so fascinating to be in a scene.
We have a lot of group scenes,
which were, it brought me back to my theater days.
I would forget a line,
because I was watching David Duchovny and Rosemarie DeWitt
and Ron and Kathleen Turner and, of course, Toni.
I didn't even open the script when it was sent to me.
The cover page said Toni Collette.
I didn't know if it had been offered to me or not,
but I was willing to do anything I could
to have the chance to work with her.
"Mom", 2013 to 2020.
I was fortunate enough
to wear very comfortable clothes and sneakers,
and I loved slipping out of my sweatpants,
only to climb into a different pair of sweatpants.
I just loved the practicality of it.
It felt really good to be working,
and I think it really reflected
where Christy was in her life,
that she had too much in her life
to be on the hunt for men.
She wanted a relationship,
but her priorities had to be her kids.
Herself, her kids and her work, you know, making money.
We wanted her to really look like she bought these
at not a very fancy store at all.
She couldn't afford to spend money on herself in any way.
I loved playing such a strong, dynamic character.
It was an honor, the whole thing.
I love Allison Janney, and I loved working with her.
She was my rock, and it was, I just love her,
and I loved performing live,
and I loved how many people would come up to me
and tell me that this show has really helped them.
That is hugely moving to me.
Thank you so much, Glamour.
This has been awesome.
I have been making everybody laugh.
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