Selma Blair: 'Hellboy II's Girl on Fire
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
HW: But you will be doing an adaptation of an Australian TV show called Kath and Kim set to air on NBC in the fall. What can you tell me about the show?
SB: I play Kim. I play the daughter. Molly Shannon plays the mother. And no, [our ages don't] have to make sense mathematically. The original version, Gina and Jane, they are the same age. It’s like a satire. They’re comedians. It doesn’t have to be accurate. We’re actresses. But, yeah. I play this very self-absorbed--that’s not very difficult--daughter. Who is, you know, obsessed with tabloids and celebrities, and all that stuff. And it takes place in Florida.
HW: How did you get involved in the show?
SB: I know that they were having a lot of trouble finding their Kim. They just couldn’t find a girl that was right. I talked to Michelle Nader who was the producer and writer on the phone, I said “Listen I think it is really a girl that wants to be like Britney Spears and wants to be like this pop star and thinks she is this pop star, but she is too little, too late, too old, just doesn’t get it. We just talked about all these ideas and everything that’s wrong with American culture and just everything she thinks that is right. So I came home and I fought for it.
HW: What’s the tone of the show?
SB: Well, we just shot the pilot. It’s kind of like, shot almost documentary style. It’s kind of shot like The Office, or Arrested Development…it’s funny. It’s strange. I think it’ll take a couple episodes for people to catch on to the tone. I don’t know if you’re gonna get it the first episode. It’s like – it’s funny but a little dry, a little weird.
Photo: Molly Shannon and Selma Blair star in Kath and Kim. (Credit: NBC)