Missi Pyle

0:19All right, let's see. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, so big film. Did you expect this going into a silent film, like all the hoopla that's surrounding it now? No, not at all. As a matter of fact, I don't imagine I would have been able to be a part of this movie. If it had had more hoopla, I think a lot more people would have clamored for some of these smaller parts. So I'm really excited that there wasn't much hoopla because I got to be a part of it. Well, I heard you clamoring for parts. This was not the part you originally thought you were fine. Well, funny enough, yeah, I got the script and I was told that I was auditioning for the wife of the silent film actor George Valentin. So I had my audition where I was at the table with him and his dog and I'm drawing mustaches on the page. Just like Penelope and Miller didn't we?

1:06But with this particular audition, I was like, I don't really know how to do this. So when I came in, I had this scene. And I remember being like, you know, and she was like, you know, you can speak out loud. We're just not going to record the dialogue. So I was like, oh, of course. And all my other silent film auditions have done it wrong. Yeah, I left thinking, oh, that was really great. And then I got cast a few weeks later and I was really excited and I got to the set and then hair and that makeup people said to me, aren't you excited you're playing the actress? And I was like, I'm not going to crazy. I don't know what they're talking about, but I was like, I'm an actress. I don't know, maybe there's a miscommunication.

1:53And then I read the sides because there were actually sides, even as more the storyboards. And I didn't see any of that scene or anything that I had auditioned for. So I was like, there was a movie within a movie and this actress. And then I was like, maybe that's me. As your on set, this is all happening. Well, you're waiting to start your first day. Yes, this is all happening in my trailer. And I'm unfortunately, you know, there are no lines. So it was a really, really easy thing. Just so I went back to my computer and I read the description. I was like, okay, and then, you know, everybody spoke French, you know? So I kind of felt like on some level, I was in a silent movie within a silent movie because you don't really know how to communicate with anybody. But yeah, I was a totally funny. Did you learn any French on set? I learned a very small amount. Dirty words? It's always the dirty words first. Yes. Well, I had to spend a lot of time in the car

2:38with Jean du Jardin. We did the movie within the movie. It was actually a much longer segment. And in order to communicate with him, I had this book of one of the things you could ask somebody. If you don't know what to say, I was like, and it was, do you like soup? So I was like, do you like soup? And he was like, yes, I like soup. We literally had very little communication because I spoke so little French. That's your French man impression there? Yes. My deal is pretty good impression of the director. Michelle has an avicius. It was like, Missy, and if you hear him speak, it's very similar. When you're on the car, you're looking scared because men with a gun shooting behind you. It's about a couple of other kinds of other directions. It must be fun to be a character actress. You must read these scripts and be like, this looks awesome. Yeah, I love being a character actress. I always wanted to be an ingenue though. Like I always imagined, I think from being a little girl

3:26that I would be like, I wanted to make out with the hot guys and do like these beautiful love scenes. But I'm so tall, like I'm almost six feet tall in my bare feet. And anytime I do my hair, because I'm from Texas is at least a six one. And then shoes, I end up being like six, two or three in heels. So I kind of ended up gearing towards comedy and doing character parts. I would audition for these ingenues. Honestly on some level, I think I just was kind of acting like I wanted to act. But then with comedy, it just was so much more fun because you could take a laugh and it would supercharge my brain a little bit. And I would try to figure out how to do more. But it's just so much fun too to play these crazy characters. And I can kind of get lost more in them and become on some level more of myself.

4:12I'm not really comfortable in my own skin. But once I get into a character, I do this character in dodgeball. And I put these big, you know, buns on my hair and then fake teeth in and doing some eyebrows and red lips. And then all of a sudden I felt more real weird. We do something called Five Questions. Five Quick Questions, more answers. Spielberg or Scorsese? Spielberg. Landon or McCartney? Ah, um, Lenin. Favorite movie to watch? The Princess Bride. Film You're Most Proud of? Galaxy Quest. And in one word, the artist. Magic. Nice. Thank you so much. Magical. Aww, that's pretty. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.