Kathryn Hahn and Casey Wilson on The Shrink Next Door, the Wild True Story, and Chop’t Salad

With the first three episode of The Shrink Next Door now streaming on AppleTV tomorrow, I recently got to speak with Kathryn Hahn and Casey Wilson about making the limited series. If you haven’t seen the trailer or heard the wild true story it’s based on, the eight-episode series explores the bizarre relationship between Martin “Marty” Markowitz (Will Ferrell) and his psychiatrist Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf (Paul Rudd). Over the course of their series, we see how a seemingly normal doctor-patient dynamic morphs into something far more sinister when Herschkopf inserts himself into every part of Marty’s life. The series also stars Kathryn Hahn as Phyllis, Marty’s younger sister, and Casey Wilson as Bonnie, the wife of Dr. Herschkopf. The series is directed by Michael Showalter and Jesse Peretz and written by Georgia Pritchett (who is also the showrunner). During the interview, Hahn and Wilson talked about what it was about the material that got them involved, the way Dr. Herschkopf uses small moments to
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