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THE BULLETIN • MAY 13 - 19, 2021
What’s Available NOW On
“Tinker Bell and the Legend of
the NeverBeast” (May 21)
Steve Loter (“Kim Possible”) co-wrote
and directed this 2014 animated
adventure about a fairy who makes
friends with a misunderstood furry
monster and tries to incorporate him
into the fairy community of Pixie
Hollow. The impressive voice cast
includes Anjelica Huston, Ginnifer
Goodwin, Lucy Liu, Megan Hilty and
Pamela Adlon.
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“Running Wild With Bear
Grylls: Season 6” (May 21)
The most recent season of the
National Geographic series finds the
title adventurer rappelling off a sheer
Icelandic cliff with funnyman Keegan-
Michael Key, exploring the staggering
peaks and steep canyons of Arches
National Park in Utah with actor
Danny Trejo and retracing the footsteps
of World War I soldiers in the Italian
Dolomites with actor Anthony Mackie,
among other ambitious treks.
“Race to the Center of the
Earth: Season 1” (Available now)
“Life Below Zero: Season 15”
(Available now)
Four teams, each departing from a
different remote corner of the planet,
race to a central location to find a buoy
that holds a $1 million grand prize in
this global non-elimination competition
series. From departure points in South
America, Russia, Canada and Southeast
Asia, the teams face treacherous terrain
and bustling cities as they sprint to the
location where all four routes intersect.
If the heavy snowfall, brutal cold and
perpetual darkness of the Alaskan winter
don’t get you, then the isolation and
mental disorientation caused by those
conditions just might. In the most recent
season of this National Geographic
adventure series, the Alaskans must band
together if they’re to get through the
cruelest of seasons with their emotional
and physical health intact.
Aidy Bryant
OF ‘SHRILL’ ON HULU
It seems like you play a lot of
older characters on “Saturday
Night Live.” So was part of the
idea behind “Shrill” to enable you
to play somebody who was closer
to your own age?
Oh, yeah. I mean, well, I’m never sad
to be cast as a mom because I feel sort
of like an older mom at heart. And I
think a lot of it is about energy; but,
certainly, I’ve played a lot of older
women. And yeah, I mean, I think part
of us making this show ... we wanted
to make a fat character that was young
and vibrant and had a sexual life
and a really full life. That was always
something we were setting out to do.
And, yeah, I’m happy to play closer to
my own age because that’s who I know
how to be.
Now that you’ve finished “Shrill,”
what are things that you can take
from this experience that will
inform your work going forward?
I’ve been at “SNL” for a very long
time, and it’s given me this incredible
foundation for how to make television
... especially in really extreme
circumstances where the timeline is
really short and the decisions have to
be made. And I think that really helped
me in working on “Shrill” because I
know how to make decisions quickly
and collaborate with an ensemble and
communicate my ideas quickly and
clearly. And I feel very lucky that I had
that foundation going into this because
this is a whole new ballgame as far
as the scale and the responsibility and
the pressure. And so, in that way, I
feel like the thing I learned is I can do
it. I can do it. I did it. I’m so proud of
what I did, what we did. This was an
incredible team effort.