Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMaya Rudolph’s first auditions were usually for parts in commercials or music videos.It was the mid-90s when she snagged work as an extra in a Dr.
Dre video. “It was a night shoot and we got paid nothing,” Rudolph recalls on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “They were like, ‘You’ll be walking where that liquid is, which was where they were dumping the porta potties.’ And I was like, ‘I’ll be in my car.’ So I slept in my car for the whole night of the shoot and then got my money and then went home.”Fast forward to today.
Rudolph is up for three Emmy nominations for her work as Connie on Netflix’s animated series “Big Mouth,” as The Judge on NBC’s.
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