By Jessica Herndon, Film Writer
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) --Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig are accustomed to sharing the same stage — and keeping a crowd in stitches — since starring on "Saturday Night Live" together from 2005 to 2013. But in their new film "Skeleton Twins," they get melodramatic.
Playing estranged, suicidal twins in the film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, the pair tackles heavy inner demons. Milo (Hader) is a newly single aspiring actor, while Maggie (Wiig) can't seem to settle into her first healthy marriage with Lance (Luke Wilson).
"This being my first drama and also the biggest role I've had in a movie, it was nice having her there supporting me and keeping me relaxed," said Hader at the film's post-premiere party of reuniting with Wiig.
Hader, who is making a successful push toward film, as many "SNL" alums have also done, says he likes shooting a film more than live television.
"I love that you have more than one take," he said. "'SNL' is always one take and it's live all over the country. It was nice having a longer process."
Back to Sundance with Wiig for the second time after their film "Adventureland" showed at the festival in 2009, Hader says he plans to catch a few screenings, just not of his own film.
"I can't watch myself," he admitted. "I get self-conscious with the way I look and sound, and I don't want that to affect my acting. I don't want to go 'Oh I can't do that because I look so weird. But my wife was kicking me saying 'You really should have been at the screening (today) because it played so well.' 'SNL' engrains in you to enjoy it that night and then have a new idea the next day, but this is really cool."
Sean “Diddy” Combs seeks bail, citing changed circumstances and new evidence
Sean "Diddy" Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean the hip-hop mogul should be allowed to prepare for a May trial from outside jail.
Lawyers for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal court, where his previous requests for bail have been rejected by two judges since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees, while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
He has been awaiting a May 5 trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
In their new court filing, lawyers for Combs say they are proposing a "far more robust" bail package that would subject the entertainer to strict around-the-clock security monitoring and near-total restrictions on his ability to contact anyone but his lawyers. But the amount of money they attach to the package remains $50 million, as they proposed before.
They also cite new evidence that they say "makes clear that the government's case is thin." That evidence, the lawyers said, refutes the government's claim that a March 2016 video showing Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred during a coerced "freak off," a sexually driven event described in the indictment against Combs.
They wrote that the encounter was instead "a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship" between Combs and his then-girlfriend.
The lawyers argued that the jail conditions Combs is experiencing at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn violate his constitutional... Read More