What it was like working with Shirley Jones and what\u2019s up next in her career<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Lie Shia Ong What happens when you\u2019re a parent but you actually sort of stop parenting your kids? In the movie \u201cFamily Weekend,\u201d Kristin Chenoweth and on-screen husband Matthew Modine find out when their teenage daughter, Emily (Olesya Rulin), takes drastic measures to convince them they need to pay more attention to their children and each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the family misses Emily\u2019s big jump-roping\ncompetition, she hits her breaking point and decides, with the help of her\nsiblings, to take her parents hostage in hopes she can persuade them to become\na family again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN Movies spoke with Kristin Chenoweth, who plays\nSamantha, the career-driven, no nonsense high-powered executive about the\nmovie, working with Shirley Jones and also what\u2019s up next for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN Movies:\n\u201cFamily Weekend\u201d really puts an interesting twist on the parent-child\nrelationship because your teenage daughter actually wants you and your husband\nto pay more attention and parent her and her siblings. What was it like playing\nthe role of the career-driven mom?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kristin Chenoweth: [It was] so fun. I had to really\ncommit to being \u2014 you know, I kind of view Samantha, which is my character, as\nhaving to become the \u201cman of the house\u201d because my husband kind of has not been\nkeeping his end of the bargain and he\u2019s an artist and not really working. She\u2019s\nhad to take over. So she\u2019s tough. Obviously there is an event that changes her\ntowards the end. Really committing to that person of being so tough and wired\nto just be the money-maker and the wheeler and the dealer and sort of shut off\nher emotions was interesting for me \u2014 but a good challenge. It\u2019s so different\nfrom who I am. It was fun. It was frustrating basically being bound and tied\nevery day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was going to ask\nyou about that. Any funny stories from shooting those scenes where you were all\ntied up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah, they would yell, \u201cCut.\u201d And they would forget that Matthew and I were unable to move. They would walk away! We\u2019d be sitting there like, ‘We have to pee too, you know? Help us out!’ It was just like, don\u2019t forget when you yell \u201ccut\u201d there\u2019s people over here that need to be attended to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You also had a few\ngreat scenes with a Hollywood legend, Shirley Jones. You didn\u2019t necessarily get\nalong in the movie at first. What was it like working with her?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazing. She\u2019s a complete professional. She still has it.\nAnd also watching her play a unique role for her was cool. She played the\nhippie-dippie grandmother who burned sage in the house and plays with puppets.\nIt was really interesting and fun to watch someone who you admire so much play\nsomeone so out of character, and so well. \nOne thing I was reminded of while I was watching her was that, yeah, I\u2019m\na singer, so I admire her in a singing way, but she\u2019s also a fantastic,\nfantastic actress. I had to get over \u2026 not treating her with so much respect in\nthe scenes. That was hard because I do respect her so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At its core the\nmovie is really about the love of family with a lot of funny moments sprinkled\nin. What do you want parents to know about the movie before watching it with\ntheir kids?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s more of a reminder that every family has its\nidiosyncrasies and their failures, and it\u2019s what you do with them and how you\nevolve that\u2019s what\u2019s important. I think our movie shows that and I love that.\nThat\u2019s, to me, the whole point of doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You have a special\npremiere coming up this Sunday on PBS. What can you tell your fans about \u201cThe\nDames of Broadway: All of \u2018Em!\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s very much what I was trained to do. Getting back to\nthat has certainly made me happy. I\u2019m really proud of it because it\u2019s not an\neasy program vocally to sing but acting-wise, it was fun to act. It was just so\nnice to get up there and do what I do, what I\u2019m trained to do. And to celebrate\nthese composers of our country: Sondheim and Rodgers and Hammerstein and all\nthe greats. There are a lot of songs that you know that are in there and some\nother gems that aren\u2019t performed very often that I\u2019m doing, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your fans wanted\nto know what your upcoming projects are, and have you heard anything about a\npossible \u201cWicked\u201d movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m going to Austin to sing at the Long Center for the\nPerforming Arts April 6. Then I\u2019m going to be announcing Australian dates soon\nfor a tour. I\u2019ll be over there. I\u2019ll be at the Hollywood Bowl this summer. I\u2019m\nexcited to get to sing for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I have heard\nabout this \u201cWicked\u201d movie, and I hope they do it and hurry up!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t know if I could play Glinda, but I could maybe\nplay Madame Morrible at the rate they\u2019re going. 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