Where this was said
The Old Soul Pilot, Rita Moreno's Phone Note, and the Sisters Sinkhole
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Amy brings up the Old Soul pilot — a project with Natasha Lyonne and a stacked cast including Fred Willard, Rita Moreno, Alan Arkin, Marla Gibbs, and Richard Benjamin — that never got picked up. Greta's clearest memory: Rita Moreno pulling her aside to say she was on her phone too much. She still thinks about it, even though she considers herself far from addicted. From there, Amy and Greta excavate the Sisters shoot: a sinkhole set that was built indoors with real plants that began to decompose and smell, and tiny plywood 'doghouse' boxes where supporting players like Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, John Glaser, and Greta would sit and wait for weeks. Amy jokes that she spent her time angling to get her character written out of the sinkhole entirely.
On the set of an Amy Poehler pilot with Rita Moreno, Greta Lee received unsolicited phone-usage feedback from the Hollywood legend — and says she thinks about it to this day, even though she barely considers herself phone-addicted.
Greta Lee performed La Bête on the West End alongside Mark Rylance. The play was in iambic pentameter, set in 16th-century France, and her character could only speak words that rhymed with 'blue.' This is an actual thing that happened.
In the West End play La Bête with Mark Rylance, set in 16th-century France in iambic pentameter, Greta Lee's character could only speak words that rhymed with 'blue.'
During the Sisters shoot, supporting cast members — including Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, and Greta Lee — were housed in tiny plywood boxes on a soundstage built around a fake sinkhole that began to smell and decompose. Nobody asked them to do anything for weeks.
Greta Lee spent roughly five years working the Momofuku restaurant floor while bouncing in and out of acting jobs. That extreme multitasking — being 'in the weeds' every night — is exactly what performing on set demands, just with a different kind of chaos.
