Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. I am thrilled to bring you my conversation this week with the true comedy icon, Tina Faye. I'm just getting out of the way here. You don't need a big wind-up.

You know Tina Faye. You love Tina Faye. So sit back, relax, and enjoy Tina right now on the

Sunday Sit Down podcast. Thanks for doing this, Tina. Great to see you. It's nice to see you.

We're very pink because it's Wednesday. Thank you. Right. This will air on a Sunday, but just know this was filmed on a Wednesday. Exactly. And on Wednesdays, some of us were pink. I'm sorry. I didn't have anything. I mean, you know what? We will add it in post. You can make your shirt pink in post. We can colorize that. It's so fun to be sitting here talking about this movie, which I absolutely loved. Thank you so much.

It's so good.

People are going to just be obsessed with it as they were with the original.

Is it odd for you to be sitting here 20 years later talking about this idea you had all those years ago?

It is a little odd.

You know, in some days I feel like it was a minute ago.

And some days I'm like, no, it was about 20 years ago.

I didn't have kids.

And now I have kids that are very large.

So it makes it's been about 20 years.

But I definitely didn't think when we were making it the first time that we would still be talking about it now.

So for people who love the original, it's that, but it also

adds the beauty of the musical, which was so popular here on Broadway for a couple of years.

So how did you approach writing this screenplay? Obviously, the music adds a different layer to it,

but differently than 2004. Well, a couple of different ways. You know, it was fun to take the

stuff we learned from the musical and kind of the tent pole songs of the musical and bring them back into a cinematic form where you can play things in a close-up.

You can have like visual jokes and you can and you can cut, you know, different places fast because so much of learning

to write, to adapt the original movie for the musical was technical. It's like, okay, movies are

three acts, musicals are two acts. You know, we need something here because the girls have to

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