‘Hacks’ Star Lauren Weedman on Appearing in Four Emmy-Nominated Comedies This Year and How Bell’s Palsy Changed Her Career

By Hunter Ingram

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Lauren Weedman could never really let loose on stage.

“I remember I was doing other people’s plays when I was younger, and I never got to fully get my yayas out,” she tells Variety. “I always felt like I had more energy or more stuff going on in me that I had to kind of control, and I couldn’t bring to characters, because I was supposed to be a certain thing to fit into the story.”

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