Amy Poehler

Well, I'm always pitching the two of us doing a play.

I'd love to do a play with him.

I think it would be, or anything, honestly.

That's a great idea.

I would do anything with him.

I'll preface this by saying, whenever I hear an actor start to talk about their process- I know, and we're going to cut the answer.

A character doesn't know if they're in a comedy or a drama.

They're just living their life.

Right.

And so if funny things happen around this character, then the movie or the show is a comedy.

But if it's tragic or scary or whatever, it leans towards drama.

Sometimes it's a mixture of both.

But I think if you can tell a character knows they're in a comedy, it's intrinsically less funny.

Yes.

Like, I look at somebody like Alan Arkin or Peter Sellers and...

They always seem very true to their characters.

They were never, like, you couldn't tell whether Alan Arkin was doing something intensely dramatic or something crazily funny.

Yes.

It was the same, like, not the same kind of, not the same acting.

He played different characters, but he was equally committed to both of them and never letting on.