"I’d never read a character like that. I got to a scene where it read, ‘She’s fully naked,’ and I remember thinking: If I do this movie, I have to do this scene because it’s really important to this script."
Kristen Wiig broke through with Saturday Night Live playing a wide array of completely bonkers characters. But the actress has been working hard to show her range since leaving the sketch show. And soon she'll take another bold step for her art and career, going fully nude for Welcome to Me. In interviews Kristen Wiig spoke frankly about the nudity required in the upcoming dramedy Welcome to Me. In the film, she stars as Alice Klieg, a Bordline Personality Disorder sufferer who wins the lottery, bails on her meds, and buys her way into a talk show of her very own. Says Wiig of the script by Eliot Laurence. In an age where even a frame of nudity can be forever preserved (and ogled) online, it's easy to understand how a full on nude scene could give Wiig pause. But Wiig is a bold performer, and a groundbreaker. The Academy Award-nominated writer and star of Bridesmaids is embracing this scene along with the character of Alice, that she found so compelling. Welcome to Me will be helmed by Shira Piven, A.K.A. Adam McKay's wife, who made her directorial debut in 2011 with the little-seen comedy Fully Loaded.
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