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- Thanks for watching.
Right now we're here with Kristin Chenoweth.
How are you?
- I'm good, Brian.
How are you doin'?
- Good, good, how's your day goin' so far?
- It's been long
but so good and so fun,
gettin' to talk about the show
and all this other stuff.
- Now, speakin' of Trial and Error
has a newcomer this season,
a new story and it's you.
- It's me. (says in foreign language)
- It's you.
- Can you tell us a little bit
about your story
and kinda comin' on and joinin' the show?
- Yeah, well, first of all,
I got a phone call from John Lithgow last season
and he was like, you gotta do the show,
this is your address, this is where you live.
I read the first three episodes and I was like,
"Yes, I'm in!"
Don't tell them that,
'cause I wanna negotiate, right?
- (Brian) You're gonna negotiate my deal?
- Right.
I play Lavinia Peck-Foster.
She is the first lady of East Peck
and she is been accused
of murdering her husband,
stuffing him into a suitcase
and throwing him into the river.
Now I cannot confirm or deny that Brian
as you know.
- [Brian] I'm scared.
- Well, you should be.
But I am going to say
that in this style of show
with mockumentary,
it is fun to let the audience
either in on something
or think they know,
just like we do
when we watch The Jinx
or Making of the Murderer,
we see, they didn't do it, they didn't do it,
oh, they did it.
Maybe they didn't.
That's kinda what we do here
but Lavinia's most fun to play
and I'll say I'm a little sore
from somethings I've been asked to do
that I haven't done since childhood
and facing my 49th year
I'm pretty damn proud of myself.
- I can't wait to watch it.
- You're gonna love it.
- I'm so mad it's not out yet. - Jeff Astrof is a genius
writer, so.
- What about this role has been different
than your other roles over the years?
- It's one of the best parts
I've ever been given.
The skill set that's required is large.
As you know, comedy is its own beast.
- Are you sayin' I'm funny, is that why?
- Yeah, maybe.
I mean you are rather tall.
I mean, last time I checked.
So I can only see this button.
Thank God we're sitting down.
I think that Astrof has found
this incredible world of taxidermy
and law and Jewish boy from New York
coming into the South
and what he's, in season one,
it's been set up so beautifully
with Lithgow's character
and now Lavinia, myself,
coming in to fill those shoes.
- [Brian] Take it over.
- Yeah, I get to do a lot of fun things
and I'm also working with
perhaps, in my estimate,
the best comedic team that I've ever experienced,
with Nick and Sherri Shepherd, and Steven,
and Amanda and Jayma Mays,
and of course Astrof has his voice.
Blitz keeps us all reigned in
and let's us loose when we're supposed to,
what a director.
So I'm on the planet I should be in,
but Lavinia does live on her own planet as well.
I call it Lavinia Land.
She's not really aware of cameras
or anyone else.
She's only aware of herself.
- That's great.
- It's fun.
- Now, you've had quite the career.
Is there a role that you wish you had more time with at all
or you look back and say like,
I wish I had more time with that character?
- Gosh, so interesting you say that.
There's roles I miss.
I don't know that I need
to have invested more time,
but there are roles I miss.
One of them is not well known,
should be, it's the role of--
It's the show The Apple Tree
and I did it on Broadway.
But it was at the Roundabout,
so it was only three or four months.
What was required of me
was to play four roles.
It was a three one acts in one show.
So I miss that.
I miss Candide.
You know, Leonard Bernstein
coming upon his hundredth year anniversary
and I'll be doin' a concert honoring him
at the Hollywood Bowl this summer.
But I think, for me,
it's The Apple Tree
and everybody expects me to say Wicked
and yeah, Wicked was amazing
and a game changer and a life changer
but so was Sally in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
and Olive on television and Pushing Daisies.
They've all shaped me
for I miss them.
I miss them but I'm not really one
to kinda look in the past either.
I look forward.
- [Brian] Movin' forward.
Great, well I can't wait to watch you
on Trial and Error.
- Thank you, please enjoy it.
- Yeah, I will.
Thank you.
- Thank you.