The One Thing That Made Katherine Hahn So Excited to Star in ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’

Katherine Hahn says there was one reason in particular she couldn’t say no to star in Tiny Beautiful Things, and it’s something “messy,” she says, we all share in common. 

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Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Catherine Hahn is getting emmybuzz for her starring role on
Hulu's Tiny Beautiful Things, playing an advice columns revered for
her sage wisdom while her own personal life is a
bit of a catastrophe. And Catherine jumped at the chance
to make the show because the reality is that's just
how life is for all of us. She tells Variety,
We're in this era of a messy, flawed heroin, which
is so interesting to me because what's so beautifully captured

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in the show is that if you scratch the surface
of any single person on the planet, everyone is a disaster. Underneath,
everyone's brain is going a mile a minute. No one
feels they're exactly at the place they want to be.
And what's so refreshing about this show is we set
out to present our whole, messy, complete selves, and we
certainly did. The words of Katherine Hahn, Tiny Beautiful Things
is on Hulu that's

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Direct from Hollywood.