Nov 4, 2025 · 51:43

Maya Hawke on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

with MH Maya Hawke

The Hang, in Short

Amy opens with friend Willa Fitzgerald calling in from Hungary (or as Amy puts it, "where Budapest is"), and things immediately get fun. Willa did Little Women with Maya in Ireland back in 2017, where she played Meg and Maya played Jo, and apparently they fell hard for each other. Like, bonding in hotel steam rooms talking about acting kind of hard. Willa's now on the Netflix medical drama Pulse, which she only took because Maya (a Grey's Anatomy superfan) told her to. The best part? When Amy asks about the fake medical bodies, Willa reveals their prosthetics person came from The Walking Dead. "We're going to use some old zombies," she jokes. The question Willa wants Amy to ask Maya is whether her limitless creativity and "lust for life" is innate or learned. It's actually a smart way to get past the lazy nepo baby conversation and talk about what it's really like growing up with artist parents in New York City.

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    Hello everyone. Welcome to another

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    episode of Good Hang. I'm really really

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    excited about this episode with the

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    great Maya Hawk. We had such a good

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    conversation. We use so many words and I

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    just love talking to her and we talk

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    about really interesting things today.

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    We talk about growing up in New York

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    City and being a kid there. We talk

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    about her love of magic and wonder and

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    uh a life of imagination. And we talk

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    about joy and anxiety, the characters

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    that we played together uh in Inside Out

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    to. also how those emotions interact and

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    connect in real life. So, it was a great

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    convo. And as always, we like to um ask

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    uh someone who knows our guest, a

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    friend, a fan, someone who has a

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    question that uh they think I should ask

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    the guest before we start the podcast.

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    So, we um are joining with Willa

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    Fitzgerald. Willa is an actress. She's

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    on um Pulse right now, a medical show on

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    Netflix. She was in Little Women with

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    Maya Hawk and most excitedly she's

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