“I know it was not the journalist’s intention to be insulting, but it’s also OK not to apologise for where you are,” she tells me later. So she’s not that surprised to find herself at a film festival. There have been appearances in acclaimed comedies, including Mean Girls with Fey and Blades Of Glory with her now ex-husband, Will Arnett. Poehler has been working in comedy for more than 20 years, including seven on Saturday Night Live, where she memorably played Hillary Clinton to her best friend Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin during the 2008 election. Instead, she looks him square in the eyes and replies, “Sure I did.” She could make an apologetic joke about taking up space a more glamorous actor should occupy. She could, at this point, play the humble-woman card and affect shock at the fact that she, a blue-collar girl from Boston, is working the red carpet in Cannes. At one point, a reporter stands up and addresses Poehler, who voices the lead character: “You must be surprised that you’re here at Cannes. The day before Amy Poehler and I meet in Cannes, she attends a press conference to promote her new film, the Pixar production Inside Out.
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