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03-16-2023, 12:38 AM
https://www.vulture.com/article/ana-gasteyer-american-auto-snl-interview.html
Ana Gasteyer Has Waited Her Entire Career for American Auto “You weren’t going to march into a fantastic female protagonist out of SNL in 2002.”
By Devon Ivie, a Vulture writer covering classic rock and the small screen
“We’re actually going to break bread together,” Ana Gasteyer observes a few minutes into our tableside chat. “Isn’t that nice?” We’re surrounded by the finest boule bread and French fries this lower Manhattan hotel has to offer — a bountiful setting of highbrow and lowbrow, she jokes, to “analyze her career.” And what a time to do some analysis. Gasteyer is well into her second season of American Auto, the whip-smart NBC workplace sitcom that’s more interested in skewering the despicable people who get cars on the road than the cars themselves. She portrays Katherine Hastings, the new CEO of a motor company that’s plagued with low stock prices, low morale, and a high volume of public-relations fiascoes. (One of the company’s cars starts a large-scale, rather biblical wildfire.)
I’m very proud to be a part of something that’s talking about uncomfortable things. Sometimes it makes me uncomfortable.
Ana Gasteyer Has Waited Her Entire Career for American Auto “You weren’t going to march into a fantastic female protagonist out of SNL in 2002.”
By Devon Ivie, a Vulture writer covering classic rock and the small screen
“We’re actually going to break bread together,” Ana Gasteyer observes a few minutes into our tableside chat. “Isn’t that nice?” We’re surrounded by the finest boule bread and French fries this lower Manhattan hotel has to offer — a bountiful setting of highbrow and lowbrow, she jokes, to “analyze her career.” And what a time to do some analysis. Gasteyer is well into her second season of American Auto, the whip-smart NBC workplace sitcom that’s more interested in skewering the despicable people who get cars on the road than the cars themselves. She portrays Katherine Hastings, the new CEO of a motor company that’s plagued with low stock prices, low morale, and a high volume of public-relations fiascoes. (One of the company’s cars starts a large-scale, rather biblical wildfire.)
I’m very proud to be a part of something that’s talking about uncomfortable things. Sometimes it makes me uncomfortable.