Kathryn Hahn’s X-rated awakening: ‘I responded to her sense of hunger’

Kathryn Hahn is playing a sex-crazed, porn-fuelled divorcee in the riotous new HBO comedy Mrs Fletcher.

She reveals why she has forbidden her children to Google her name‘I’m 46 years old,” says Kathryn Hahn, curled up on a seat opposite me.

“And I still have no idea who I am.” For a while, Hollywood wasn’t sure either.

She was the supportive romcom friend in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the sex-crazed wife in Step Brothers and the dutiful mum in The Visit, stealing scenes whenever she could – but always playing a woman defined by someone else.“I was burning for bigger opportunities,” she says, in a meeting room in HBO’s new Manhattan office.

“But I never thought they would happen.

I never thought I would be seen as the lead.

I always felt like an outsider.”

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