For Bill Hader, improvisation comes naturally: “My scripts don’t have notes on them,” he said. “It’s intuitive, it’s play.”
Hader himself doesn’t mind scrutiny, as long as it’s within certain boundaries. He told me early on that he wouldn’t discuss his mother or his marriage. But it took me a while to realize how closemouthed he was about his close relationships, because his way of apologizing for tiptoeing around a private garden is to give you a chatty and entertaining tour of the rest of the grounds.
Producers and agents advised him, “Just do a Stefon movie—stay in your lane, and you’ll become a movie star.” Instead, in 2013, he, Fred Armisen, and Seth Meyers filmed “Documentary Now!” for IFC, a series of mockumentaries that parodied classics of the form.
One afternoon, Hader and Alec Berg sat side by side in a tiny office above Paramount’s Stage 19, staring at a whiteboard. Hader swigged kombucha, looking maximally frowzy; walking through the set, he’d muttered, “Dishevelled weirdo coming through.” Other than a fluorescent light and a rudimentary desk, the room’s only decoration was a broken air-conditioner that appeared to have been installed in the studio’s glory days, in the seventies.
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