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[userboygenius]

Glenn Howerton in WHEN PIGS FLY (2017), directed by Andrew Wood.

[flawlessgentlemen]

I'd say learn how to make your own stuff. Learn how to write your own stuff learn how to film your own stuff it's so easy now to film anything if you have a phone you can do it. And just practice it. And get better at it. Because it's all we're doing is filming something so if you get good at it and then you won't have to wait for someone to give you a job you know? They'll come to you and say hey can you make something for me so we can make money.

[flawlessbeautyqueens]

I promised myself I would never take anything just for the money or just to have a job, no matter how tiny of an apartment I had to live in or how many side jobs I needed to have. It wasn’t worth being miserable. I never, ever set out to be famous. I set out to do this because it’s something I love. And if I’m not loving it, I’m not going to do it. I stopped auditioning for pilots I didn’t want, [then] the Sunny audition came along and I was like, “This is on a network I’ve barely ever heard of, which has never done a comedy before, but I want it because it looks awesome!”

[birdslaw]

Charlie Day Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

[alicenthightower]

Kaitlin Olson photographed by Bode Helm for Philadelphia Style

“I find her to be so ridiculous, it’s pathetic,” Olson says of Dee. “But acting her out is so hilarious. If I were a character that was winning all the time, it would be so boring. I don’t know how you would sympathize or empathize with that person.”

[princessdameron-blog]

Law & Order Guest Stars: Charlie Day (S11E15)

[userboygenius]

Glenn Howerton in WHEN PIGS FLY (2017), directed by Andrew Wood.

[birdslaw]

I can’t tell if I relate to her [Dee] anymore or if I’m just so used to playing her and love her so much that it’s second nature.

[flawlessbeautyqueens]

Before “Sunny” came along, I would audition and do chemistry reads with very funny actors. And then they would cast someone who was beautiful and benign. I don’t think that very funny men wanted to headline with very funny women. They wanted to be the funny ones, and they wanted the wife to be the wife. That was very frustrating. That’s not something that happened once or twice. But I think that’s starting to change. Off the top of my head, I could give you 15 amazing women who are kicking butt in Hollywood right now, and it’s great.

[alicenthightower]

Kaitlin Olson and Danny Devito during It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s panel on the Winter 2015 TCA tour. (Jan. 18, 2015)

[alicenthightower]

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[alicenthightower]

Kaitlin Olson by Buzzfeed

Dee’s actions don’t fall victim to the conventions usually dealt to women in comedy. Dee was Bridesmaids before there even was a Bridesmaids. She is crude beyond belief at times. She flails her arms and spits venomous, half-baked threats at anyone within earshot. She falls — a lot — and fake-vomits so convincingly that it’s become a running gag on the show. “I’ve never heard somebody do a gag so funny,” Howerton says. “You know, suppressing puke, it’s just a weird gift she has.”

[alicenthightower]

Kaitlin Olson by Buzzfeed

“We were blown away by how funny she was,” says Day. “I can’t think of an overall impression other than our general excitement that we found someone who was really right for this part.”

Oddly enough, it was McElhenney — to whom Olson is now married — who was less than convinced about her. During the audition, Olson accidentally left out a critical line in the script they’d given her, and McElhenney was nonplussed, to say the least.

“I left the room and Rob was like, How did she leave out the funniest line that was in there? and he didn’t want to cast me,” Olson says. “Rob, who I’ve now married, had to be talked into hiring me.”

[alicenthightower]

Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito at It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's panel on the Winter 2015 TCA tour.

[alicenthightower]

Kaitlin Olson for Buzzfeed

When asked why she thinks she hasn’t been offered more roles at this point, Olson says, “Sometimes I’m like, oh well, they just wanted a young pretty person, rather than a funny person. That’s discouraging, because there’s nothing I can do about that.” Olson pauses, and then softens the blow with, “I love my job. I got really lucky. I love my character and this circumstance, but it is a little confusing why, in my off time, I’m not doing more. I can’t really blame it on ‘oh well, I’m pregnant’ anymore.”

... For his part Howerton offered his own take. “I just think it’s a shame that she hasn’t been more recognized, and that more roles have not been thrown at her. I think a lot of men are scared to act opposite a woman who is as funny as they are, and who will give them a run for their money for being the funniest person in that project,” he says. “And I think a lot of times she doesn’t get cast in things because she’s so funny, and I think that’s fucked up.”

When asked if this was at all true, Olson appears hesitant to answer and seems borderline uncomfortable. She pauses before responding. “I hope not, but I feel like that’s happened a few times. I just hope that, if it is true, it starts to shift soon. Because it’s a shame. I don’t know if I can answer that question. I don’t want you to print anything I have to say.”

After a long pause — where she leans across the table, then sits back and re-tucks her legs into her chest — she says, “Yeah, I just, I love Glenn for saying that and for recognizing it, and, well, you know, Rob says all the time, he’s like, ‘Look. That must not be what America wants because if it were, you’d see more of it.’ People, women, want to see women being pleasant. But for some reason, we want to see men be really funny. I think that’s starting to change, you know, ever since Bridesmaids really. So that’s really awesome. I think that’s the part that I’ll focus on and just hang in there.”

During a time where Olson does have to consider and weigh every word she says, because those words could lead to her next big role or prevent her from landing it, it’s clear that she’s nervous about it all — about posing with the tree, how she’ll be perceived by viewers, and what people think of her, and wanting to be liked by an audience larger than the one she’s cultivated with Sunny. “I hope it’s not threatening for me to be as funny as I can be and work with a really funny man,” she says emphatically, straightening her posture and finally relaxing. “To me, that sounds like an amazing movie.”

[alicenthightower]

Kaitlin Olson for Buzzfeed

“I can’t tell if I relate to her [Dee] anymore or if I’m just so used to playing her and love her so much that it’s second nature,” Olson says.

With the photographer and stylists gone, Olson finally seems more at ease, sitting at a long wooden outdoor table in her backyard and tucking her legs into her chest.

“There’s a certain element of desperation and wanting people to like you… I was really shy. But I think because that was so sad for me when I was little, that it’s so hilarious and sad now, that I relate to that. I like this character’s way of handling it, way more than how I handled it. Which is, like, aggressively and angrily. Maybe it’s cathartic. I don’t know.”