ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS MARCH 25, 2019 Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler Take Us to Wine Country All hail Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler. In an April-issue profile running today as a digital cover story, Joy Press spent some time with the hilarious duo, who discuss everything from their upcoming projects to the origin of their friendship, formed in the barracks of Saturday Night Live. “We all went through something so significant together,” Rudolph says. “I always say S.N.L.was the comedy army.” The duo also talk at length about their wider group of friends (or “witchy circle,” as Poehler puts it), comprised of former S.N.L.-ers Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, and Emily Spivey, all of whom are involved in Wine Country, Poehler’s feature directing debut. The comedy, which sold to Netflix, is a heightened reimagining of the real-life friend group’s eventful trips, such as Dratch’s 50th birthday party, which saw all of the women head to an Airbnb in Napa Valley, California. But, Poehler says, Wine Country is not a midlife-crisis story. “The movie’s not about ladies who can’t act their age,” she says. “The women I know in their 40s and 50s are incredibly interesting, funny, accomplished, doing a million things, and there’s a lot of rich stories to tell there that don’t involve loss or fear of being left.” Elsewhere in HWD, Laura Bradley pulls double duty, chatting with O.G. Bachelorette couple Trista and Ryan Sutter and The Act co-creator Michelle Dean; K. Austin Collins offers a different, buoyant take on Us; and Richard Lawson examines the weird, wild world of The OA Season 2.

Make ’Em Laugh Rudolph and Poehler traipse down memory lane and uncork the secrets to Wine Country. READ MORE » Cut Through the Noise Get Out may have been Reddit’s dream film thanks to all the Easter eggs and subtle references, but Us is more fun if you don’t go down that rabbit hole. READ MORE » Take This Rose It’s hard to find lasting love in Bachelor Nation, but Trista and Ryan have done the impossible—for the last 15 years, to boot. READ MORE » True-Crime Corner Here’s how Michelle Dean went from being a reporter to creating TV’s next true-crime obsession, Hulu’s grossly enthralling series The Act. READ MORE » A Perfect Illusion The OA’s impressively strange second season has promise, but it misses the mark when it reaches the end, Lawson argues.