Molly Shannon: Shooting Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer Was "Painful" When...

Plus, find out what yogurt had to do with the funny lady being cast in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

It's been 14 years since Wet Hot American Summer, the cult classic about the last day of a summer camp in 1981, hit theaters.

While Molly Shannon said it was great reuniting with the cast for the new Netlfix series prequel to the movie, their itty-bitty wardrobe wasn't such a delight.

"It was freezing cold and we were shooting in the winter in L.A.," Shannon told me the premiere of her new indie dramedy Me and Early and the Dying Girl. "We shot all night in shorts and we had to pretend like it was warm. I had tan tights on and we had to shoot until the sun came up. It was painful. We were freezing."

Even so, Shannon said, returning to Camp Firewood "just felt fun. It didn't even feel like work."

The biggest difference about then and now, Shannon said, was parenthood. "We all have kids now," she said. "We can't believe all that time has passed, but so many of us have kids and all we talked about were our kids."

All eight episodes of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp will premiere on Netflix on July 31.

In Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (in theaters tomorrow), Shannon plays the boozy and inappropriate mom of high schooler (Olivia Cooke) with terminal cancer.

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon didn't exactly go through the usual channels (i.e., a manager or an agent) to land the Saturday Night Live veteran for the movie.

"I met Alfonso at a yogurt store," Shannon recalled. "He came up to me and he was like, 'I'm such a fan of yours' and then he wrote me a really nice email asking me to be in the movie. I read the script and I said, 'This script is fantastic. Of course, I'll be in it.'"

Cooke realizes the title of the movie is slightly jarring. "It kind of puts people off a bit, but I think it really hits the tone of the movie because it's so honest and it's so blunt," she said.

Thomas Mann plays Greg, a fellow student who befriends Cooke's character (he's the "Me" in the title). "It's blunt," he said. "It's in the voice of Greg. He says what he's thinking the way a lot of teenagers do. They're not sensitive to a lot of subjects. They kind of just say what's on their mind. The honesty is what I think people are responding to."