Well, where is she?

That's that's the question.

You know, this is a chef of messed up feet, and Marin is a designer.

That broke.

Wow, This is Dori.

She's my friend from college.

I'm gonna find her, but I gave you guys help.

Who?

You?

What does she tell have to do with you?

I'm just tired of things that don't matter.

It's gonna be, like, 30 other options.

You know, I chose this.

I think you've decided to this matters to you because you have nothing else.

Dori, please.

Can we not do this? 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:1.310 Thing is our only option way have to do. 00:01:1.310 --> 00:01:2.250 This is their destiny. 00:01:2.260 --> 00:01:2.700 Sorry. 00:01:6.610 --> 00:01:13.770 5678 He's a man following me.

She doesn't know where to draw the line thing.

Stuff scares.

I'm confused.

About what?

I'm supposed to tweet right now.

She's out.

Could you help me focus on this right now?

Oh, my God.

Do you know my friend dropped on and he was like him.

We're since you've been gone.

She's flat. 00:01:51.650 --> 00:02:3.440 Sure, Theo, Thanks so much for being here. 00:02:3.450 --> 00:02:7.350 Thinks you're I was just telling you back there, you're having a pretty incredible year. 00:02:7.350 --> 00:02:8.640 You've got two great movies. 00:02:8.640 --> 00:02:11.280 You've got green work wise emotionally, emotionally.

No one is having a beer, but for you guys think looking good.

Yeah.

Anyway, um, yeah, you had this fantastic movie.

One of my favorite movies of the air Green Room come out earlier this year, and then you have another one coming out later.

20th century women, which is another one of my favorite movies of the year.

And you have the show, which is absolutely fantastic.

It is.

How did you How did you How did you become a part of this?

This incredible comedy, which is really nothing like nothing else on television.

Um, well, thank you.

Um, Let's see, I got an email as most of us do, Um, on a week day.

And it was it was, like, from, ah, my manager about, uh, how Michael Showalter was show running this new show.

Um, and I've been a fan of Stella and Michael's work for, like, years and years, so show Walter is the showrunner of the Yeah, OK.

Showalter.

Showrunner? 00:02:59.570 --> 00:03:1.280 Yeah, that's what we call him on set. 00:03:1.290 --> 00:03:2.950 Hey, makes us calling that. 00:03:3.340 --> 00:03:7.640 Um, yeah, he and I've, like, loved all his, you know, stuff. 00:03:7.640 --> 00:03:8.660 I've been such a big fan of his. 00:03:8.660 --> 00:03:13.910 And then I saw Fort Tilden that s V and Charles, the creators of the show made.

And, uh, yeah, I really like their sensibility commenting on, like, hipster culture without it being like to pop culture reference.

He kind of stuff.

And then I really liked the script and we had lunch at a place called Little Dumps.

And we just, like, hit it off.

Really well, they're really good at a kind of, ah, scathing portrait.

Scathingly hilarious portrait of narcissism.

Yeah.

Was that something that you were attracted to?

Yeah, definitely. 00:03:39.450 --> 00:04:0.320 I mean, there's this, I think you know, as the show goes on when you see it that it's very unexpectedly, like, who is, like, the real narcissist, because I feel like, um the calling, someone narcissistic, Um Or, um, what's the other one when you have two personalities like people throw that term out like all the time, You know what I mean? 00:04:0.320 --> 00:04:9.260 Like, he's such a narcissist and and and when you actually realize, like what a narcissist is because I would like kind of fascinated by and like reading about. 00:04:9.260 --> 00:04:14.850 It's like people who really think the world revolves around them, but they're not necessarily people who are very like, ostentatious or loud.

Um, and so I think it's like it was an interesting character to be the one to tell the story who's like, on the surface very insecure and kind of lets people push her around.

But then you start to be like, But is she the biggest narcissist of them all?

You know, like what we think people owe us and we internalize and how we act because we think people will view us as a good person verse actually being just a good person.

So you had a lot of fun questions, uh, like therapy for me.

All of a sudden, I'm like and I don't know I had a dream last night, and we'll know Narcissism is fascinating in the sense that the word does get thrown around all the time.

No, we're consistently older.

People are consistently referencing millennials. 00:04:53.200 --> 00:05:0.180 It's narcissistic, but there's this idea that the people that you call narcissistic is your own fear of your own narcissism. 00:05:0.190 --> 00:05:4.790 At times there's a representational aspect of that person as well. 00:05:4.790 --> 00:05:7.590 You see something that you want from them that you're not getting. 00:05:7.710 --> 00:05:9.990 So you refer to them as narcissistic, right?

Exactly.

And also are willing to placate what they think, like doing what they think they want.

You know what I mean to, like, get it from them, like all dues.

A nice favor for them.

But really, it's just to get what you want shows a comedy by the light light fare like Great Fair, eh?

So you get any mail you you did you audition for?

Cause this is amazing.

This is the first show where you mean you're the lead.

You're the center of the show.

Um, was that stress?

I didn't audition for You did it?

I'm not saying I still audition all the time.

I have one right after this.

Actually, um I mean, I, uh, yeah, they had just, like, been, like seeing the show.

I mean, my work and stuff.

And I think we're fans of, like, arrested development and kind of, you know, they told me that they had, like, had me in mind for the character, which is so flattering. 00:05:56.390 --> 00:06:7.800 And ah, And also it was at a place where the way it was written and then when I sat down with them because we shot the pilot, not knowing if he was gonna go to Siri's, you know, we got to really create the character a lot together. 00:06:7.810 --> 00:06:15.620 So any character notes I had were kind of naturally implemented in the shooting instead of just kind of like, this is how it's written, like go for it.

It was like, really collaborative the whole time.

How often did you find that your character notes were, you know, about the story, but also about sort of where you are and what you wanted to play at this point in your life.

Like how it was written originally.

Evening.

Um, you know, it's like Dori is kind of like, Ah, uh, similar to me when I was, like, younger, I guess kind of when I was, like, 18 19.

Um, not that I'm not, you know, insecure now.

But just in deeper, darker ways now than when I was younger.

It was a lot more surfacing. 00:06:46.840 --> 00:07:5.200 Um, but yeah, just like that that kind of state in your life where you don't know what you want and all of a sudden you feel like time is like escaping before you or you're just like not only do I not know what I want, but I feel like I have to decide today, you know, instead of like, one step at a time. 00:07:5.700 --> 00:07:12.430 Um and I think that's what kind of forces air into this, like, you know, to take action and something that she shouldn't be involved in.

Nobody's asking her to be involved in, but that's what gives her, like legitimacy in it.

Oh, it is really fun to play because I've also, you know, played a lot of like, like precocious, you know, sassy girls where I just kind of have to like It's a different kind of detachment.

And when I was younger, I was actually feeling more like Dori playing confident girls.

And now I'm more like, confident as a woman, playing someone who's like doubting themselves.

Um, so it's fun, I guess.

Well, I think that kind of makes sense, though that you because when you are insecure, you do detach a little bit, and when you and that's probably easier for you.

It's not easier, but maybe maybe easier for you.

As an actress, you had to detach.

Sure, it's always fun to detach.

Um, yeah. 00:07:54.750 --> 00:08:4.090 I mean, it's a cool job and also you kind of when you have more awareness of something you've experienced to comment on it, you know, where is like if you're in something too much. 00:08:4.090 --> 00:08:6.330 I mean, actors all have different ways of doing it. 00:08:6.370 --> 00:08:10.850 But ah, I found also just being involved in the show like the writing and being on set.

It wasn't just about me showing up like, Okay, let's do this.

It was, like, really tryingto create.

Ah, like the most interesting shows, you know, like breaking bad orders like you see these characters fully change from where you know each episode.

It's like the slow evolution.

So by the end, even as an audience member feels like you know the character so well, you're like super surprise.

We're just like they've become a different person.

Um, and it's like it's a serialized comedy which you don't which we don't get a lot of actually, this network is doing, I think, more than anybody else for TBS, right?

T o Did this network appointed eyes doing Maur like with the vacation show that they have as well, Which is also a serious detour.

Excuse me, is also a serialized comedy.

So you do see your character grow.

And there is this central mystery that's happening throughout the whole the whole season.

Yeah, totally.

Um, the further the first episode features a, uh, possibly the most depressing sex scene may be funny, but also mostly depressing sex.

Have you ever seen rape scenes in movies?

Those are much more.

Well, those I wouldn't I wouldn't label those sex.

Oh, God.

Oh, myself.

What was it like shooting that scene?

Where did this?

Where did this come from?

What did you think when you saw it in the script?

Um, I thought it was very true to life When you've been in a relationship for, like, three years and almost on you start being like, Is this the last person I'm gonna have sex with, um, or like, am I gonna be okay with bad sex?

For how much longer?

You know, um, when we shot, it was, like, genuinely uncomfortable.

And but funny, like John Reynolds is like the greatest, But, um, he's really funny, and he's so funny in it.

Yet, um, he reminds her like a seventies like SNL comedian like he has this, like, very unique charm about him.

Ah, but I think I'll like the humor and stuff. 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:1.780 I mean, it's it's funny to try toe label. 00:10:1.780 --> 00:10:4.790 What kind of humor something is, I think is you're either respond to No, you don't. 00:10:4.800 --> 00:10:11.940 But it's like it's realistic, um, with kind of extreme scenarios, but it feels very like Imagine if that happened right now.

This is what this is how we'd react, You know, there's nothing like over the top.

And even with something like that, like, it is really extreme.

Um, you know, he's like, jerking off next to me in a classic bad sex.

Um, and I just kind of like tap him on the back and I don't get any enjoyment out of it.

Um, I thought it was like, Yeah, I think it's just really funny.

And it creates that kind of like a place that the relationship is that it's kind of like Stasis of just like we're so comfortable with each other.

Like, why would we break up because, like, the alternative seems like worse, but maybe not that much worse. 00:10:50.440 --> 00:11:2.830 And is also like the setup for, like, what makes her engage in something outside of herself toe, like, do things that actually make her happy, you know, And the thing that she engages in for the to explain it to the audience that she started searching for. 00:11:2.830 --> 00:11:3.890 Ah, missing girl. 00:11:4.580 --> 00:11:5.350 Can you talk about that? 00:11:5.920 --> 00:11:6.360 Yeah. 00:11:6.400 --> 00:11:9.350 She's searching for herself and a girl. 00:11:9.930 --> 00:11:12.370 Um, girl represents herself.

Girls herself, Unlike hurt herself is also girls.

Um, yeah, it's ah, girl from college and she wasn't very close with that.

She sees like a missing poster for what?

She's gone missing.

And she kind of slowly but surely just kind of comes obsessed with this idea that someone is missing.

M what happens when that, you know, like, who's who's actually gonna be involved?

Who's gonna help out?

Is it like, just your family?

Is it just close friends?

Is it like your community?

You know, she feels like because she knew her at all.

There's this, like, you know, she feels it's like deep empathy for her, just like, but like we have to care we have to help, like she's gone missing.

And eventually it's also the thing of like back to like being narcissistic of like So if I went missing, would anyone care? 00:11:59.190 --> 00:12:5.670 You know what anyone I like went to school with or someone that knew them would be like, Oh, should that girl went missing like nobody knows where Allie is on there. 00:12:5.670 --> 00:12:6.170 Like Tom. 00:12:6.170 --> 00:12:8.360 It's a shame she was cool Anyways. 00:12:8.600 --> 00:12:9.820 Do you want calamari? 00:12:9.830 --> 00:12:12.450 You know, it's like people, like move on from stuff like that.

And, uh, I think Dorrie just kind of can't get off of that.

Like if she becomes righteous about it and then at the same time, it's Ah, it's an exciting goal because it feels more important than anything else.

It's not about like doing something artistic or something like cool.

She's just like, No, this is more important.

It's about somebody's life, and that kind of like checks everything else in her life.

So it, like, overpowers it.

And there's no sense of.

I mean, it's not like doing something artistic, where the sense of failure is potentially there, right and anything else.

There's no real sort of risk or chance in searching for somebody because at the end of the day, if you don't turn them up, it's not your fault, right?

And you're not sharing a part of yourself.

The others No sacrifice.

There's no vulnerability, really.

It's just being really something to Dio.

Yeah, it's something to do.

And also there's an exciting element about it.

You know what I mean? 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:4.820 Like your adrenaline goes up because it's the idea of like, Well, what if she's being held kidnapped? 00:13:4.820 --> 00:13:6.060 Like what if someone trying to kill her? 00:13:6.060 --> 00:13:10.150 Like so it just has this like excitement to it and feels legitimate.

Um, but yes, I think the reason why the show, in my opinion, is like creative success.

That was because you are you, even though the whole time you're people are still like Okay, why are you doing this?

You know, and she like, kind of answers, but never really fully does.

There's no great answer.

She's just like I just want to find her like I have to find her and I think it's It's well done in that way where it's kind of like we do things that were not always really aware of why we do them?

Um, maybe we'll never be aware of it.

But there's something instinctually if it's bad for you or write for you that you just like I have to do.