Molly Shannon dishes on joining Only Murders in the Building for season four. Plus, reveals what it was like working with Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin, calling it the "happiest set in Hollywood."
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00:00What made you want to join the show for this season?
00:02Well, I've been friends with the creator, the brilliant John Hoffman.
00:06He's my good friend for 25 years, 30 years, maybe 30 years.
00:10And he was like, Ma, do you want to come on the show?
00:13And I was like, I would love to.
00:15And my friend J.J. Philbin, who's a producer on the show,
00:19was like, you know, we have this character we think you'd be great for.
00:23She's a Hollywood producer who's making a movie out of the Only Murders podcast.
00:28So the trio, Steve, Martin, and Selena, comes to Hollywood,
00:32and I'm like, gotta get them to agree to make a movie about the podcast.
00:36So I've never played a Hollywood producer.
00:38It was really fun, and I based it on a lot of people who I've worked with.
00:43I'm not going to say who.
00:45But she's kind of a very aggressive, sharky kind of producer.
00:51What was it like working with Martin, Steve, and Selena on the show?
00:54It was great.
00:55Well, they call it the happiest set in Hollywood for a reason,
00:58and it's because it is the happiest set in Hollywood.
01:02It's a party on camera and off camera,
01:06because you have Steve and Marty sitting around eating their tuna fish sandwiches,
01:10Selena having so much fun, laughing, cracking up.
01:14Then you have Eugene Levy visiting Meryl Streep.
01:17It feels like you're at the funnest party, and then you go shoot.
01:21So it's just exactly what you might imagine that would be like.
01:25Fun.