The “Megan Stalter character” is its own comedy genre now. Where does the real megstalter end and her personae begin? ralter reports
Photo: Magnus Unnar Megan Stalter doesn’t mean to peek at my notes, honest. “I’m so sorry,” she says in her midwestern-nice way. “It’s just sometimes your eyes are always looking for your name. Isn’t that psychotic?” The 31-year-old comedian is fighting a laugh through her apology because my notepad actually reads, “Is Megan Stalter real?” This is indeed a ridiculous thing to see written about yourself, but Stalter knows ridiculousness.
Photo: Magnus Unnar Take one beloved Stalter character: a former child actress in a nice middle-class living room playing it chill but secretly, desperately longing for fame, who tells viewers that, yes, she “actually did play Taffy Jones in the Stinky Witch movies.” The proper nouns are zany, but the emotions behind them are real.
Stalter grew up in Ohio, “filming full movies any chance we got” with her siblings and cousins. “There were movies we’d make where I’m the girl, and my cousin’s the boyfriend, and she cheats on me,” she recalls. “We were really dramatic, elaborate children with a lot of time on our hands.” Her mom and aunt started it, though; they would film parody videos and then hand the camera to the kids.
Stalter has already snagged her first leading role, in the indie dark comedy Cora Bora from director Hannah Pearl Utt. The film follows Stalter as Cora, a struggling musician who goes home to Portland to try to win her girlfriend back. It will be as deep a role as we’ve ever seen from Stalter. It was also her first brush with stage fright. “We had to do this scene with tons of extras watching me sing and play guitar, and it was nerve-racking,” she remembers. “I was fully crying.
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