Despite never really doing comedy before Girls5eva, Renée Elise Goldsberry has managed to steal nearly every scene she’s been in over the two seasons of that show’s initial run on Peacock and its third, which arrives this week on Netflix.
In this episode of The Last Laugh podcast, the Tony and Grammy Award winner reveals what it was like to find her comedic voice as the self-obsessed diva Wickie Roy, including the parallels between mastering Tina Fey’s brand of rapid-fire jokes and learning to rap for her role as Angelica Schuyler in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Goldsberry also talks about getting cut out of Fey and Amy Poehler’s movie Sisters, meeting co-star Paula Pell on Documentary Now, and why she would be “shocked” if there wasn’t a fourth season of Girls5eva coming to Netflix in the near future.
It’s the morning after a rare live performance by the fictional girl group Girls5eva at the show’s big Season 3 premiere in New York City, and the Broadway star is still feeling a little unsure about how well it went.
