“I’ve been in a lot of ensembles where I’ve been, like the excited mother.” Or the divorced divorced mom. And I loved all those parts! But there’s something about it where it was women “and this a pretty queer guy” that felt top notch
Agatha All Along star Kathryn Hahn zooms in from her LA home on her laptop, which could use a little magic of its own. “I don’t want to point the finger at my kids, but someone crashed my computer so my screen is cracked and it’s a million different colors. It looks like “Tron,” she laughs. But no that giggle, cackle you’re probably familiar with from her indelible turn as masked, omnipresent neighbor Agnes/Agatha in Disney’s WandaVision. The mother of two (with her husband, fellow actor Ethan Sandler) says she was more than happy to go full-on witches for the gig.
“I love a cock,” she says. “I was so happy they let me. I was like, ‘I have to cry, you guys, come on.’ I know it’s on the nose, but we must have a witch that bites.
Hahn’s performance was so perfect and hilarious, and so well-suited to the emerging genres of that sitcom-themed drama, that the studio would have been crazy not to expand her character. And they have: The Disney+ miniseries “Agatha All Along” debuts on September 18. “I knew it was going to be a real new adventure,” says Hahn. “It felt like there was something on a deeper level than just, like, magic and witches and music, which is a lot of fun. But there was something about the whole quest for your power that was something else.â€
Hahn, 51, has long been a beloved presence in film and TV, an actor you can count on to bring nuance and coherence to any plot, no matter how outlandish. But taking the lead in a series like this, she says, is a whole other animal. “I never would have thought in a million years that this would be close for me.”
We reunite with Agatha after the events of the “WandaVision” finale, which left the witch without her powers and memory and, as it turns out, thrust into another TV genre: crime noir. Hahn evokes her “Mare of Easttown” / “True Detective” vibe as a headstrong detective working a small-town homicide.
“I want, love a hardened female detective with a past, she says with a laugh. “You know, she lives for work, maybe she has a slight drinking problem, she has a sort of flirtatious relationship with some of her colleagues, but she lives for justice. We took it seriously; we didn’t want to wink at the “there are literally no words” audience.
About that wink. Hahn has a moment in “WandaVision” — it’s when the show is in its ’70s era — where she gives a wink heard around the world, a wink that started an enduring meme useful for anyone looking to mean a bit of duplicity. “I’m glad it’s such a flattering photo,” she says with a good eye roll.
Hahn is not a social media person, never has been, but she likes to hear about this stuff. “I remember walking into a California weed shop and seeing a sign that said, ‘We only sell smoking accessories,’ along with that winking look on her face.
But the beginning of “Agatha All Along†really plays it straight, without winking. If you’ve seen the trailer, you know that our antiheroine will eventually discover the artifice in her current situation and join forces with some other witches to ‘walk the way of the witches’. With their help, she can become the powerful entity she once was. Her coven cast is fierce: Patti LuPone, Aubrey Plaza, Sasheer Zamata and Ali Ahn — plus Joe Locke (“Heartstopper”) as a mysterious goth teenager with a spell that won’t let him reveal his name or history his. . The show unfolds on a journey down said road, one that includes an earworm of a musical number, a variety of enchanted settings (this writer’s favorite: Nancy Meyers’ house), and several deadly incidents.
Hahn’s evolution as Agatha feels like a wonderful meta-representation of her career. Like the various iterations of Agnes on WandaVision, she has been stealing the show as a character actress in major movies and series for decades, from early roles on Anchorman, Step Brothers, and Parks and Recreation to her first Emmy nomination for Transparent and voicing the supervillain in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Two more Emmy noms followed, for “W” and “Pretty Little Things.”
Hahn fits into many genres and yet always manages to be one herself that she is a truly unique presence. A 2021 hashtag on Vulture was christened Hahnassaince, which wasn’t a reference to Hahn returning to the spotlight after an absence, but rather an acknowledgment that she’s been putting on great performances for decades, some of which Raves haven’t won they should.
Moving into middle age, Hahn says, sparked an abundance of new and different work and a corresponding comfort in bringing more of herself to her roles. “When I was in acting school, acting was doing different genres and different parts and, you know, slipping on wigs and costumes. That’s what I thought it was. Total transformation, says Hahn, an Ohioan who studied theater at Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama. “And then there was a period when I was really asked to bring myself, and that’s where I found the greatest fulfillment as a performer. When I began to give up so many artifices. That’s what we all want to see – this kind of messy woman in the shadows, you know what I mean?
A polished mess and an affinity for dark clothing are what you’ll get from a Hahn red carpet appearance, too. “I try to stick to a uniform that’s becoming a little bit more, I mean, masculine,” she says. “I like a suit. I really like navy, black and beige. I have some great links that will find me these vintage Japanese men’s suits that fit perfectly. And I love the old Dries, the old Celine. I like a loafer, a sole. She will sometimes wear a heel, albeit fleetingly. “I can do it for a very short time on a red carpet, but my husband will usually keep my Birkenstocks inside his jacket.”
Her brunette mane has also become something of a signature, dating back to her pre-fame days as a salon receptionist in New York. “All the guys there got together and gave me a Mason Pearson hairbrush one Christmas,” she says. “I was like, ‘Are you trying to tell me something?'” When she would go to early auditions, she adds, “My agent a million years ago would be like, ‘And run a brush through your hair. !’â€
Reader, she didn’t. “I’ve always had long, messy hair. That’s always been my thing. It feels French. It also didn’t hurt that it gave it a little magical appeal. “I think maybe [âWandaVisionâ creator] Jac [Schaeffer] i would tell you one of the main reasons i got this piece was because i came in and had a wild and messy rag. She was like, “There’s that witch!”
The show’s costume department was instrumental in bringing Hahn to her full magic. “The main seamstress in the show had worked with, like, Lucille Ball,” she says. “She had a faith in Northern California. And she put runes on the bottom of the cape, like protective runes all around. And every time I wore it, I could feel the power! I felt like a beetle, like one of those insects. It all felt so, so… ANALOGUE.â€
Her next project also returns her to the relatively analog world of comedy: an Apple+ Hollywood comedy from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, “The Studio,” in which Hahn stars alongside Rogen, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz and Chase Sui Wonders. “It was such a remedy after I was in some serious stuff,” she says.
But right now, she is completely enveloped in the purple vortex of Agatha’s magic, thinking, as she says, “the idea of how every woman at all times holds the daughter, the mother, and the crown.” And to be able to begin to feel like I have the wisdom of … life. To be able to get through it. It’s a really powerful feeling. It feels like everything has led to this amazing woman in the shadows, this wonderful witch.
Editor: Serena French; Stylist: Anahita Moussavian; Photo Editor: Jessica Hober; Talent Booker: Patty Adams Martinez; Hair: Marilee Albin at Prtnrs; Makeup: Jo Strettell at Walter Schupfer Management using Hourglass Cosmetics; Manicure: Stephanie Stone at Forward Artists; Fashion Assistants: Jena Beck, Tawnee Clifton; Assistant on set: Gillian Hormel, Cat: Watson in Hollywood Animals
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