Megan Mullally joins cast of Fox sitcom “Breakin In’

By Jay Bobbin
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 – 12:01 am

If it seems Megan Mullally is breaking her way into a returning sitcom, she actually was invited.
A two-time Emmy winner as the high-pitched-in-allways Karen Walker on “Will & Grace” (still shown in weekday repeats on Lifetime), the typically amusing
actress surely isn’t lacking work. She’s a regular on Adult Swim’s “Childrens
Hospital”; she’s had guest roles lately on ABC’s “Happy Endings” and NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” (which costars her husband, Nick Offerman) and “Up All Night”; and she’s supplying voices for the soon-to-start Season 2 of Fox’s animated “Bob’s Burgers.”
Mullally also is climbing aboard the second season of another Fox show. She plays the new boss of Contra Security as “Breaking In” resumes March 6, with the humor more office-based as she joins continuing cast members including
Christian Slater, Bret Harrison and Odette Annable (who also is doing extra Fox
duty as she films the final episodes of “House,” which will be back in April).
“I remembered seeing the billboards, but I hadn’t seen the show,” the spirited
Mullally recalls of receiving the “Breaking In” offer. “They sent me three episodes, and I thought, ‘This definitely has potential.’ I got on the phone with the producers, and they were very nice, and we talked about what qualities might play best for my
character. Then they wrote two sample scenes, and I thought this was something
I could have a good time with.”
Though Michael Rosenbaum (“Smallville”) has left “Breaking In,” Mullally is enjoying working with another newcomer to the show: Welsh actress Erin Richards, who plays the new chief’s executive assistant.
“She’s quite good, and she adds a fun element,” Mullally says. “And she’s not
hard to look at. It’s a really fun group.”
Joining an existing series isn’t new for Mullally, who did the same on the Starz
comedy “Party Down” after Jane Lynch left to begin her “Glee” run on Fox.
“I would say the difference is that on ‘Party Down,’ they didn’t miss a beat,”
Mullally notes. “They just plugged me in and carried on exactly the same as before.
‘Breaking In’ has been completely revamped, and it’s almost like starting from
scratch.”
The fact that Slater’s character is no longer the boss alters “Breaking In” automatically.
“Christian has so much energy, just a bottomless well of it, physically and emotionally,” Mullally says. “And it’s positive energy, which is great.
“Since he’s No. 1 on the call sheet, that’s always a nice thing, and he couldn’t have been nicer in welcoming me. He sent me a lovely email when I decided to do
the show, and he sent flowers on my birthday. He really is quite a gentleman, and
we have good chemistry, which is helpful.”
Though spouse Offerman is busy with his own series role as Ron Swanson, who
has become iconic among “Parks and Recreation” fans, Mullally hopes he might
have enough time to do a “Breaking In” guest shot before the season ends.
“I would love that,” she says. “We’ve done an inordinate amount of things together recently, including three movies; one of them, ‘Smashed,’ was just shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
“I think that with every project I do, they’re secretly hoping they can get Nick. And I don’t want to flatter myself, but it also might hold true the other way around.”

(http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120222/ENT/120229952/1009)

Megan Mullally to Join Cast of Fox’s BREAKING IN, 3/6

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Emmy Award-winning actress Megan Mullally joins the cast of Fox’s BREAKING IN as Veronica Mann with Christian Slater as Oz in the comedy’s second season premiering March 6th at 8:30 pm/ET. BREAKING IN is a half-hour workplace comedy that takes office politics to the next level of genius.

In an interview with TVGuide.com, Mullally describes her character, “Everybody is very resentful that their company has been bought out, their little world has been invaded by this big conglomerate, and they’re resisting the change. The fact that I’m kind of a whack job doesn’t really help to relax them.” In the episode, Veronica disguises herself as a receptionist to ‘scope out’ the company. ”The thing about my character is I am the boss and I am crazy. But I’m crazy like a fox!”

Megan Mullally made her television debut alongside Elaine Stritch and Ellen Burstyn on “The Ellen Burstyn Show” in 1986. She appeared opposite Stanley Tucci as Walter Winchell’s wife in Paul Mazursky’s award-winning HBO bio-pic Winchell and opposite Juliet Stevenson in Lifetime’s “The Pact.” She is best known for her two-time Emmy and four-time SAG Award-winning role as Karen Walker on the hit NBC Series “Will Grace.

She has received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for her performance as Rosemary in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying opposite Matthew Broderick and starred in the hit Broadway musical, Young Frankenstein. Her other Los Angeles theater credits include The Berlin Circle at The Evidence Room Theater, for which she won the 2000 BackStage West Garland Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play and the L.A. Weekly Award for Best Leading Female Performance. She also appeared in Mayhem at The Evidence Room, as well as a variety of plays and musicals in both Chicago and Los Angeles.

First Look: Breaking In’s New Boss

Feb 14, 2012 07:01 AM ET
by Rob Moynihan

A familiar face is infiltrating Breaking In’s second season, as Will & Grace alum Megan Mullally joins the Fox comedy (returning March 6) as Veronica, the head of an organization that takes over Contra Security.

“Everybody is very resentful that their company has been bought out, their little world has been invaded by this big conglomerate, and they’re resisting the change,” says Mullally. “The fact that I’m kind of a whack job doesn’t really help to relax them.”

Disguising herself as a receptionist, Veronica scopes out Oz (Christian Slater) and the gang before revealing her true identity. “The thing about my character is I am the boss and I am crazy,” adds Mullally. “But I’m crazy like a fox!”

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‘Breaking In’s’ Megan Mullally glad the ‘very talented’ cast of ‘Will & Grace’ keeps working

By Jay Bobbin

February 3, 2012 4:57 PM ET

Megan Mullally is pleased she and her fellow Emmy-winning “Will & Grace” co-stars remain busy, but she isn’t surprised.

Debra Messing debuts Monday (Feb. 6) in NBC’s musical drama series “Smash”; Sean Hayes is an executive producer of “Grimm” and starring in an NBC comedy pilot; Eric McCormack returns to Broadway next month in a revival of the Gore Vidal political drama “The Best Man”; and Mullally joins the FOX comedy “Breaking In” when it starts its second season Tuesday, March 6.

“Well, you know, it’s a very talented group,” two-time Emmy recipient Mullally tells Zap2it. “Everybody came from the theater, and that was part of the reason the show worked so well. It was good casting. We all had a great education on that show for eight years, working with pristine scripts and also working with [director] Jim Burrows on every episode. We might have all been pretty good to begin with, but we came out a lot better.”

And easily as active, certainly in Mullally’s case: She also stars in Adult Swim’s “Childrens Hospital” and has guested this season on ABC’s “Happy Endings” and NBC’s “Up All Night.” She’s providing several voices for “Bob’s Burgers,” which begins Season 2 on FOX in March. Mullally has also worked a lot with husband Nick Offerman lately.

That’s not only as one of the Tammys who are Ron Swanson’s ex-wives on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” but also in several movies including “Smashed,” which was well-received at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Mullally doesn’t know whether Offerman will have time to join her in a guest shot on “Breaking In,” but she clearly wouldn’t mind it.

“I think that with every project I do, they’re secretly hoping they can also get Nick,” she muses. “And I don’t want to flatter myself, but I think that it also might hold true the other way around. We have done an inordinate amount of things together recently. ‘Smashed’ is such a good movie. I was so excited, because I’ve never been in a good movie!

“Actually, ‘About Last Night … ‘ was good, and ‘Anywhere But Here’ wasn’t horrible,” she adds. “And I did a movie a long time ago that was at Sundance, ‘Everything Put Together,’ which was one of the first films directed by Marc Forster. But ‘Smashed’ is really good, and Nick and I were so excited to see it. We cried at the end. We’re really sappy, but I was just so glad to be in a good movie, I was hysterically sobbing.”

(http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/02/breaking-ins-megan-mullally-glad-the-very-talented-cast-of-will-grace-keeps-working.html)

Wings of a Dragon (with Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman) – CollegeHumor

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Married sitcoms stars get ‘Smashed’ at Sundance

Sitcom stars/married couple Megan Mullally (“Will & Grace,” “Breaking In”) and Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”) are taking time out from the TV shows to attend the opening weekend of Sundance. And they couldn’t be happier about it.
“We can only go for the weekend because we’re both working, but I’m excited. Whoo!” Mullally said. Mullally and Offerman both have roles in “Smashed,” which is entered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. “It’s loosely based on ‘The Days of Wine and Roses,’” she said.
“Smashed” stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) and Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad,” “Big Love”) as a young married couple “who are very happy, but their marriage is based on their consumption of alcohol,” Mullally said. “And at a certain point, the wife decides that she’s going to clean up her act because she’s having trouble functioning in her job as a schoolteacher.”
“I play the principal at the school. And Nick plays the vice principal,” she said with a laugh. So they kind of work together. But not really. “We don’t really have any scenes together,” Mullally said. “We sort of pass each other in the hall. We’re like two actors passing in the night.
And they’d like to find something that they could spend more time onscreen together. “Maybe something for Sundance,” Mullally said. “We love working together. It’s very easy for us to collaborate. It’s a blast.”
“The funnest things we’ve done, obviously, were the Ron and Tammy episodes [of 'Parks and Recreation']. Maybe something like that. Only dramatic.”
— Scott D. Pierce
(http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogssundanceblog/53350057-50/mullally-married-smashed-stars.html.csp)

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Megan Mullally Returns To ‘Happy Endings,’ Sings More With Casey Wilson

Megan Mullally has been blessed with some of TV’s most memorable roles. But really, she’s the reason they’ve all been memorable. TV’s love affair with Mullally started with “Will & Grace,” and more recently, we’ve seen her on “Party Down,” “Childrens Hospital” and some unbelievably funny guest spots in between — including playing real-life husband Nick Offerman’s TV ex on “Parks and Recreation” and acting as zany lounge singing mom to Casey WIlson’s Penny Hartz on “Happy Endings.”

She’s back on “Happy Endings” tonight (Wed., Jan. 11, 9:31 p.m. EST on ABC), and we’ve got an exclusive sneak peek above at what Dana’s up to. When she last visited earlier this season, she was going through a break-up, and the Hartz ladies did a pretty fabulous duet of “Torn.” At the time, Mullally told us she’d love to come back for more “Happy Endings”: “I feel like it’s been one of the funniest things I’ve done in a while.” Now it’s happening, and Dana’s found a new man — Dave’s (Zach Knighton) dad, played by Michael McKean. Awkward much? Maybe it’d be better to sing about it.

I caught up with Mullally at the Television Critics Association winter press tour — where she was promoting her new stint on Fox’s “Breaking In” — to talk all about her song-filled return, and whether or not her new job will keep her from coming back to “Happy Endings” for more.

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“Well the good news is, it’s Sony — it’s a Sony show, and so is ‘Happy Endings,’ so I think I’ve got that covered,” Mullally said. “I love doing ‘Happy Endings.’ It’s so much fun, and I love working with Casey. We have a chemistry like Sean Hayes and I had. We can read each other’s minds — like we can sing, and sing the same thing at the same time, and we’re just making it up. They wrote me the most amazing episode. I did another one [airing Jan. 11], and Casey and I, again, have a really funny little singing moment.”

Here’s ABC’s official description of the episode, “Meat the Parrots.”

Dave’s father, “Big” Dave (Michael McKean), comes to town to introduce his new girlfriend, who shockingly happens to be Penny’s mother, Dana (Megan Mullally). Penny couldn’t be more thrilled that her thrice divorced mother has a new man in her life, but Dave on the other hand reacts childishly to the news. Meanwhile Alex, who is feeling lonely at the shop, decides to adopt an adorable parrot that turns out to be not so charming, spewing nonstop racist and homophobic rhetoric. And Alex enlists Brad and Max’s help, as she is convinced the Chinese restaurant next door is a front for a brothel.

FOX TCA Talk: Megan Mullally and Adam F. Goldberg preview the new ‘Breaking In’

It’s been a long and bumpt ride for FOX’ half-hour comedy Breaking In. Though the show was initially cancelled, the executives at the network had a change of heart– ironically right when Christian Slater had just moved back to the east coast. He joked today at FOX’ TCA tour that he felt like Tinkerbell, needing that belief from the audience that the show could live, and wouldn’t you know it? Enough people believed, but perhaps not that it could be a hit as-was.

Executive producer Adam F. Goldberg decided to revamp the comedy a little– to reel it in for season two and focus these thirteen episodes on the inner workings of Contra Security and the team assembled there, rather than spend the full twenty-two minutes out in a new location, on a new case each time.

“Basically we just wanted to feel more like an office show, and I think that meant building more people into the office that could be funny. And one thing that, to me, was missing was a foil for Oz,” Goldberg shared with critics in Los Angeles.
And who do you get when you need a funny, smart actress who can come into a show and revitalize it in new ways? Megan Mullally, of course! Even though she has a million jobs (she guest stars on Parks and Recreation, Happy Endings, and soon Up All Night, in addition to co-starring in Childrens Hospital and appearing in the Party Down movie that John Enbom is currently writing), she was happy to move onto another comedy.

“There aren’t that many shows on network television that I find funny,” Mullally admitted. “If there’s a show that most of the people in the milieu think is funny, then say yes. I say yes a lot, you may have noticed.”

Perhaps the freedom to create the character along with Goldberg helped, too, though. Since the character was brand new, and Mullally is so trusted, Breaking In writers and producers are actually working with her to flesh out this woman.

Who is she? Well, she is the aforementioned foil to Oz (Slater), who “comes in and kind of takes over,” Mullally previewed.

“I’m the big conglomerate that takes over the small company [and] I’m adorkable,” she half-joked.

She’s fitting into the FOX family already, isn’t she?

Breaking In returns to FOX on March 6th at 8:30pm.

(http://www.examiner.com/tv-insider-in-los-angeles/fox-tca-talk-megan-mullally-and-adam-f-goldberg-preview-the-new-breaking-in)

Winter TCA Press Tour 2012

PASADENA, CA – JANUARY 08: Actress Megan Mullally speaks onstage during the spring comedy panel during the FOX Broadcasting Company portion of the 2012 Winter TCA Tour at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on January 8, 2012 in Pasadena, California.

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