Kaitlin Olson, star of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Finding Dory, is featured in the July issue of Good Housekeeping. During her fashion shoot in her hometown, Portland, Oregon, she opens up on her comedic influences, working with her hubby on It’s Always Sunny, her new role in Finding Dory, and much more.
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On working with her hubby, fellow comedian Rob McElhenney, on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: “The best part about working with my husband is that I get to see him every day…we have really busy schedules so we only see each other in the morning or late at night, [but] when we’re working together, we get to see one another all day for a couple of months… I don’t have any worst parts about working with my husband. He’s great. I think he’s really funny and he thinks I’m really funny, and it’s kind of like a fun little time of the year.”
On her frequent fashion blunders: “My most embarrassing fashion blunder happens on a regular basis when people ask me on a red carpet who I’m wearing, and I never have any idea. I just think the dress looks cute.”
On her character in the upcoming film Finding Dory, and her kids’ reaction: “I play a whale shark named Destiny who can’t swim very well. We’re both extremely clumsy!… My kids are very excited that I am going to be in Finding Dory. We watched the preview no less than 55 times. We went to see Zootopia and the preview came on in the movie theater, and both of them were like “Mommy! Mommy! We see you. That’s you!” It was really cute.”
Her comedic influences: “Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner and Julia Louis Dreyfus definitely. I like a lot of dudes, too, like Bill Murray and Will Ferrell.”
On her childhood pet (a goose!): “I grew up in a very tiny little town outside of Portland and we had a farm…we didn’t have a ton of animals but we did have a goose, just one goose and we got her when she was a baby, and she would ride around in my bathrobe pocket. She loved to snuggle and I loved her. Her name was Maddie.”
Her reality TV guilty pleasure: “The Real Housewives of anything. Anything!”
On the most outrageous item she has in her closet (a real case of buyer’s remorse): “A pair of black cowboy boots that I’ve had for 15 years that I bought when I finally got a job and had a little bit of money, and I was conned into buying them because it said “vintage cowboy boots” in this little shop on Abbott Kinney in California, and I thought “They’re so fancy and expensive, and they’re vintage. They say they’re vintage so I have to get them.” I’ve never worn them but I can’t throw them away and no one wants to take them, so they’re just sitting in there with dust.”
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