Writer-actress Paula Pell knows it’s ridiculous: a dowdy, out-of-touch suburban broad with an accent that is somehow a little British — or Irish, or something Euro — who solves murders in her quaint town.
But the Emmy winner, who wrote for Saturday Night Live for nearly 20 years and recently made a dildo-assisted splash in front of the camera as Val in the Netflix original movie Wine Country, ate up every bit of Murder, She Wrote.
So playing a randy, gay Jessica Fletcher? It’s the kind of role she’d kill for. Or just writer herself … which is exactly what she did.
Fellow comedian and 30 Rock actor John Lutz asked Pell if she’d be interested in portraying an amateur sleuth. She said absolutely.