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).

Bronstein, a bit of a cult figure in the film world, made her directorial debut in 2008 at the SXSW festival with “Yeast,” which featured a pre-fame Greta Gerwig and was hailed by by New Yorker critic Richard Brody as a “mumblecore classic.”

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

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.

Rose Byrne plays a mother in the midst of ... Part of Linda’s story involves her therapist, played by Conan O’Brien, who joked that he didn’t realize he was in a movie.

Rose Byrne attends the premiere of "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, at Library Theatre in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Mary Bronstein's "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" is a nightmarish drama centered on a mother's internal turmoil — and it all started with the filmmaker's own experience of crisis with her daughter. "This movie started as a seed of an idea when I was going through a crisis with my own daughter,

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.

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