Michelle Buteau isn’t too eager to return to Australia, where the wildlife doesn’t just look dangerous, it auditions for the role.
The “Survival of the Thickest” star recently wrapped up seven weeks of filming in Australia for her upcoming comedy film, “Spa Weekend,” and she realized her trip was less about rest and relaxation, but more about running for her life.
“I’m good on it. It was nice for what it was,” Buteau jokingly said of her time Down Under, during a March 28 appearance on “The Late Show.” “I didn’t know, when you go there you’re just like in a Safari.”
Host Stephen Colbert comedically added, “Everything there wants you dead.”
But the real shock came when Buteau had a “little visitor” make an unexpected cameo in her trailer. Colbert then held up a photo of the spider Buteau encountered — though it was far from the likes of which Americans were used to encountering.
“I was getting dressed, and I said, ‘Wardrobe lady, is that a bat?’” she recalled.
Her assistant, ever the calm voice of reason, reassured the comedian that it is in fact a “little spider.” But, given the spider’s sheer magnitude, roughly the size of a tax-paying citizen, Buteau responded, “What’s a big spider, sis?”
She admitted avoiding her trailer for the remainder of the day and joked that they “had to walk it out on a leash” due to its stature.
“That spider was so big, it was like everything you own in the box to the left,” she said, paying homage to Beyoncé’s hit song “Irreplacable.”
Still haunted by the encounter, Buteau likened the arachnid to something with its own political agenda.
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“I’m a Democrat, but that spider was independent,” she confidently stated. “I named it Jill Stein. I’m like, ‘Where did you come from out of nowhere?’”
