EW chats with ''Reefer Madness'' star Ana Gasteyer
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The ex-Saturday Night Live star — famous for her stuffy Martha Stewart — lets loose as Mae Coleman in the movie musical Reefer Madness, a blood-soaked cautionary tale that she calls ”Roger Corman and Mel Brooks and Andrew Lloyd Webber meeting in one big hell party.” Sure, kids, drugs are bad — but her performance is revelatory. Here are three things we (and you?) didn’t know the 38-year-old star could do.
She sings. . .for real
”I was a voice major for a year, but I lost my way through the sordid life of a comedian.” (Next up: She heads to Chicago to play Elphaba in Wicked.)
She vamps it up
”It’s fun to play slutty people. Everybody thinks I’m 50 from SNL, ’cause I played so many old ladies.”
She swings a mean hoe
”I had to rehearse, constantly, with that friggin’ bow stick. I don’t think that I’ve ever worked so hard in my life. Whacking myself in the head and face.”
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