Jane Lynchis the queen of mean.
At least on screen.
In real life, Lynch couldn’t be any further from her screen counterparts.
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“Now I’m used to it,” she tells EW.
I say lots of cheeky things to people.
It was really a blast to be a bit cheeky."
Imagining what would happen if Sue Sylvester hostedWeakest Link, Lynch says, “She would be relentless.
She would not give up until everybody was crying.
I stopped short of that.”
Perhaps even more impressive is that Lynch is coming up with her one-liners on the spot.
“I enjoy taking care of people,” she says.
I just want everything to be taken care of so that they can have a good time.
The same thing with game shows.
Then I lay down the law, and I herd the cats," she continues.
“In this show, I want everybody to know that I’m steering the ship.
Lynch also had the unenviable task of making Robinson’s catchphrase “Youarethe weakest link, goodbye!”
“I didn’t play with it at all,” she notes.
“I knew that if I played with it, it would become contrived.
Just as an actor, always in my mind I’m thinking, ‘Just experience this.’
So, let’s move on, we have to get rid of this weakest link.”
As for how she’d fare playing the game herself?
“It’s breadth of knowledge and the question you get,” she says.
“There was a smart guy in one of our first episodes.
I know I would rather play that.”
Weakest Linkpremieres Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m.
