To prepare for playing a witch on television, Kathryn Hahn called a real one. They talked every week leading up to shooting Agatha All Along , a miniseries that feels like a live-action version of a Simpsons Halloween special: There’s comedy, horror, parody, and adventure. Hahn says that she learned three big lessons from their conversations: Remarkably, Hahn took all of this in stride.
Like with every part she’s taken on, whether it’s a small role or the lead of a Marvel show, she dived in deep. That’s because Hahn isn’t just a character actor, she’s a character-actor—someone whose unique personality can elevate anything. “You can see her as this really wild comedian who just makes you laugh harder than anybody, and you can also, I think, see her as one of the greatest actresses of our time,” says filmmaker Joey Soloway, Hahn’s longtime friend and collaborator.
“She’s so many things.” Whether she’s a sexually voracious housewife in Step Brothers or a thoughtful new-age rabbi in Transparent , Hahn has a way of physically going for it that helps her steal whatever scene she’s in. “It makes sense, once you know her, how willing she is to open her chest cavity to the world,” Agatha All Along creator Jac Schaeffer says.
“It is extremely rare.” Related But even after Hahn spent the past two decades lighting up a genre-spanning list of movies and TV series, it feels like the world still needs to be periodically reminded of her magic. There’s .