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Tina Fey on Her New Netflix Series: “It Saved Me From Just Shrinking Up Like a Little Granny Apple Head”

Fronting her first series since '30 Rock,' 'The Four Seasons' creator and star opens up about loss, that Lorne comment and why she's ignoring the impulse to hide and retire: "I'm always out here hustling."

But over a few hours and many cups of coffee — discussing her evolving work-life balance, the pains of making the second Mean Girls movie and her “irreplaceable” mentor, Lorne Michaels — the multihyphenate almost exclusively refers to herself as a writer. Like his film, the series follows three couples — Fey and Forte, Carell and Kerri Kenney-Silver, Domingo and Italian playwright-actor Marco Calvani — over quarterly vacations as their dynamic is upended when one of the men leaves his wife and starts bringing a younger woman (Erika Henningsen). She was vacationing with former SNL colleagues Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Emily Spivey — “That’s the core, the group chat,” says Fey — in upstate New York.

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