Rose Byrne plays a mother in the midst of a breakdown in the experiential psychological thriller “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”

Seconds before Conan O’Brien appears on the big screen for his dramatic acting debut, you see a close-up of his black dress shoes, toe-tapping impatiently. Although his signature physicality still comes through,

Conan O’Brien, the beloved late night show host, has officially made his acting debut in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, an oppressive drama that made waves at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival last Friday (January 24).

Conan O’Brien, A$AP Rocky, and Danielle Macdonald co-star in Mary Bronstein’s audacious anxiety nightmare.

For years, I have been a huge admirer of Conan O’Brien as a comedian but, at one time, I was struck by the thought of how cool it might be to see him give drama a try. The former late night talk show host does not actively pursue acting roles and has even expressed,

What will surely go down as one the most stressful movies of the year is “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.

Mary Bronstein's 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' wowed the Sundance Film Festival with an all-time Rose Byrne performance.

Sundance: Rose Byrne and Conan O'Brien star in Mary Bronstein's surreal freak-out of a movie about the anxieties of contemporary motherhood.

Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald and A$AP Rocky also star in Mary Bronstein’s feverish dark comedy thriller about parenting in extremis and existential black holes.

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Panelists: Mary Bronstein (writer/director), Rose Byrne (Linda) Key quotes: Bronstein, “The seed of it came from me having a very stressful experience with my daughter’s health when she was 7 years old. The way I started dealing with it at the time was that I started writing this movie with no expectation of what it would be.”

Oscars host Conan O’Brien says he’s still unable to live in his home due to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and that the show’s organizers “want to be sensitive to what’s happened” to residen