'Kath and Kim': Selma Blair Returns to Television
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
After traveling the world with her movie career Selma Blair decided to lay down some roots and return to television. We caught up with the starlet to talk about her new comedy Kath and Kim set to premiere on NBC this fall.
Hollywood.com: Kath and Kim is an adaptation of an Australian comedy. What can you tell us 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.