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Mahogany Brown. Was it difficult to keep a straight face while shooting For Your Consideration?
I really blew it on one scene. I had a scene with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Bob Balaban and I was supposed to be interjecting with lines as they got into this fight and I was ruining the shots, cuz what’s happening is everyone is doing it so serious, and I just could not keep it together. The thing about an improv movie is you don’t know what everyone is going to say, so you can’t prepare for it, and then they say something that would naturally make you laugh and you can’t help it.

Do you think awards shows have “jumped the shark”?
You know, I used to think award shows were important. I remember watching the Oscars in the ‘70s thinking they were so cool. Now, I don’t know. I think the celebrity thing is so overblown, it’s just really out of control. So I think maybe they have jumped the shark. My big problem is that people accept the awards for, let’s say, playing a cop, but it seems like they are saving lives, you know what I mean? They are accepting the award as if they did save people and really was a cop. Geez, you’re just playing a cop. You’re an actor! You know, there are people who are incredibly talented. Did I think Philip Seymour Hoffman deserved that Oscar? Yes I did. I thought that was one of the most brilliant performances I have ever seen by an actor. And if they are going to give out awards, he should get one. Then you see some people get an award, and you’re like, what? How did that happen?

If you were not an actress what would you be?
Well, when I was six years old I told my parents that I wanted to be a dump picker and a lullaby singer for a living. And what I meant was I wanted to go to the dump and pick things out that could be restored and then I would go door to door and sing lullabies.

Because you have been in all these Christopher Guest films that have such a following, do you often get people stopping you and quoting lines?
You know what, they do. You have people come up to you and they’ll say: “We love that line, ‘We both love soup.’” Now, it’s a couple of years after Best In Show and people come up to me and go: “We love that line were you say, ‘We both love…’ and then they say something that really did not happen in the film. They’ll say something like: “We love that line where you say, ‘We both love canoes.’ We love that line, we say it in our house, it’s on our answering machine!” And I’m not going to let them know that’s not the line, but if I made it to their answering machine, cool.

What’s next for you, working on anything right now?
No, I’m not. Do you know of anything? No, I have this movie coming up in Cape Cod next month called American Primitive. It’s sort of a coming-of-age cool story.

What was it like to work on Joey?
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OK, you know facial expressions don’t go over well in print...
I know, I know. You know it was, um…I was incredibly grateful to have a job like that at the time, but you know, when you do TV shows like that, they are hard to do, and you feel… well, the great thing was I was doing this Christopher Guest film while doing Joey. I have to say I kind of liked leaving Joey and going to do the Christopher Guest thing, and going back to Joey and I was thinking, how do you do a TV show and a movie at the same time? If I could do that all the time, that would be cool. I had a hard time with Joey because I chose that over the top character because I thought I was going to play her one time on the pilot then they offered me the series and all of a sudden you can’t change it, you can’t go: “She’s going to be totally different now,” you know what I mean? And it’s written in stone so… That’s my regret. I wish that I had been more subtle. I feel I was a bit cheesy.

Do you always enjoy doing comedy? Or would you like to try a more serious role?
I think I might fail as a doctor. I don’t think I would be believable as a doctor but I would love to play a lawyer or a serial killer. I would love to play some scary lady, someone really scary. How about a lawyer-serial killer but it’s also a musical? But are you kidding? I would love to be in a serious role. I want to play someone who is really messed up.

What do you like to do on a day off to unwind?
I like to drink maybe four or five high-powered cappuccinos and then I like to arrange flowers.

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