Rachel Bloom Reveals Her Intern Stories at SNL

Hi Rachel.

Hi, good to see you.

Hi, how's out by?

It's lovely and we're outside by this lake where the bats are. It's awesome.

Rachel is staying in a hotel room right up there. I think it's like one of those top square ones, yeah. She was spying on us earlier when we were prepping for this interview. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so they say in Austin the the tagline is, let's keep Austin weird. Yeah. Did you know that?

Yeah, and then other people have kind of co-opted that phrase. It's like, keep Los Angeles weird, keep Portland weird. It's like now it's moving on to other cities.

What what makes it weird? What makes it This place isn't weird. It's a lake. That's so weird. Was the question was though, what's the weirdest thing that happened on set?

Oh. Oh. Um Oh. Oh, the town where we were filming tried to um, squeeze us for more money literally the day before filming. Um and we somehow found out how to like get around that or pay it, but like they last minute were like, actually, you owe us this thousand thousands of more dollars, and we were like, we're an indie film. Like we're a it we can't do that. And so

So you were really in on the business side of this, then?

Yeah, well because I also, you know, live with the director. But we were filming in, uh, Westchester. Thanks, Westchester. Thanks.

Yeah. Cowboy hats or cowboy boots?

Well, the hat shades your face from the sun and prevents cancer. So, hats.

Good answer. That's a good one. Tell me about the movie that year.

So, it's called Most Likely to Murder. And it's a comedy Noir about um a guy who's convinced that a kid from his former high school has committed a murder because, uh, this kid in their hometown has suddenly become popular, and the guy who was popular is suddenly super unpopular. So, he's trying to get his power back.

Right. Uh, were you popular, Rachel?

No. Uh, uh, uh, yes, I was unpopular in middle school, and then it got better in high school.

You're hilarious, though. And so you were an intern on SNL. Is this true or is this not true?

Yeah. In in college.

What where was that? In New York?

I went to NYU.

NYU. What was that experience like?

Um my friend was a writer on Weekend Update. Okay. And it was uh an interesting internship as far as like skills in the entertainment industry. It taught me almost nothing. I think the coolest thing for me was seeing that there wasn't this like mystery, just seeing the writers writing at 2:00 a. m. and getting stoned or whatever and trying to like come up with sketches just like I did in my college sketch group was really great. Just to see like, oh there's actually a very straight line between where I am in college and where they are.

You've also you've won a Golden Globe.

Mhm.

That's pretty amazing.

Oh, it's awesome.

What's that like when you when you win a Golden Globe?

Um it was just like boring like any other day. Um honestly, I was like, ugh, anywhere but here. Get me to the dentist. No. It was um I mean it was really surreal like I mean earlier that year.

Did you cry? Laugh?

I I almost cried. I mean I was just so like I was also really nervous. It was just kind of overwhelming. Like the whole thing hadn't sunk in yet. I mean it was wonderful. It was it was this fantastic night. A year before that, I thought I had a dead Showtime show. And so within a year, January to January, I went from having a dead Showtime pilot to winning a Golden Globe, so it all happened very quickly. And I honestly don't think I even started to process it until last year.

You you said that one of your like greatest, uh, or most your favorite things, uh, or I think that you've achieved is crying. Is that true?

Yes. Call me an idiot. It's a it's a very self-indulgent act for you to be proud of crying, but I've gotten better at it. And usually when that happens, I have to do all this like prep. But there was a scene this season I got like crying came easier, which is such a masturbatory actor thing, 'cause who cares? Right. But there was this one therapy scene where like I hadn't even anticipated crying, and I started crying. And we didn't even use like the take where I was crying.

Do you have any tricks that you can teach us how to cry? If you can't if you can't just can't come out.

Um Well, my husband actually thought of a great thing, which is you look up at a light so it gets your eyes teary. And you you sing you try to sing "Big Girls Don't Cry" through a veil of tears, so you go Big girls don't cry. Big girls And I'm getting teary.

Oh, thank you so much for hanging out with us.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, we have to see the movie. The trailer looks hilarious and I'm a big fan of dark comedy. So Is it dark, right?

It is, it is. It's dark and dirty. And um someone does die. Someone dies. And um maybe it'll be you.

I was gonna ask you a question about the the the question. Who would you most likely kill? But who would I kill? Who would you kill?

I'll answer that. I guess I got to say Hitler.

Hitler? He's bad. I know this is controversial. I know this is controversial, but

Yeah. In my opinion, Hitler was really bad. And I'm not afraid to state my opinion because I think with my own thoughts.

So, we ended on that or not?

Yeah. I'm trying to get out of this. I still kill Hitler, though.

I'd kill Hitler also.