Amy Poehler was, maybe, a bit too “jazzed” when filming alongside Michelle Obama throughout her cameo on the sixth season finale of NBC’s hit sitcom Parks and Recreation.
On a brand new episode of her Good Cling with Amy Poehler podcast, Poehler reunited with Obama for an hour-long dialogue delving into the present, the previous first woman’s personal podcast and her post-presidency life — in addition to the second the Saturday Evening Dwell alumna “full-on drooled” in entrance of her.
“Do you will have a reminiscence of that day [on set]? I’m positive you didn’t since you had been most likely the center of your workday, however I’ve a really robust reminiscence about one thing,” Poehler started.
Obama described that filming was “a blur,” including, “the factor is is, like, I’m not an actress, and I’m working strains and making an attempt to determine cues.” Poehler interrupted, saying, “Properly, God is honest — you possibly can’t be an excellent actress on prime of all the pieces else.”
“However I used to be nervous,” Obama defined. “I used to be like, , I wanna get it proper, however I wanna be myself in a pure approach. So it was very a lot a blur. What do you bear in mind about that day?”
Poehler recalled “the very first take” of their scene: “We had been busy. We had been hitting a bunch of locations that day. You had been good. You bought your line. You hit your mark. You stated your line, and my character, Leslie Knope, is meant to be overwhelmed by seeing you. And I, Amy Poehler, was additionally very jazzed, and I went to say my line, and I drooled. Do you not bear in mind? I’m glad you don’t bear in mind. I full-on drooled.”
For her half, Poehler described Obama as a “whole professional” who didn’t give her an excessive amount of grief for her “very lively salivary glands.”
“I don’t bear in mind the drool,” Obama affirmed, “however I’m gonna take into consideration that.”
“I need you to all the time affiliate that with me now,” Poehler joked.
Of the Emmy-nominated seven-season political mockumentary, Poehler mirrored: “That [era] was such a enjoyable time, as a result of not solely was I attending to do the job that I beloved, nevertheless it was a time when it felt like everyone needed to cease by and be a part of the present that was about public service. And it was a distinct time the place there was this potential or lightness, I feel, in some ways to simply put a bunch of various folks collectively in a room, they usually don’t agree, they usually nonetheless discover a option to work collectively.”
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