Natalie Joy

Dougie Jr.

was born right down the hall.

Are you serious?

I tested...

I tested, so I put myself on tape first, and then they had us come in to do an hour-long improvised job interview, essentially, and at the production office, which is right down the hall from here.

Oh, wow.

I get the chills thinking about it.

Oh, my gosh.

I mean, it feels that way to me, but yeah.

nuts yeah so that's a great head of hair do you have to grow that out or yeah i didn't have to but i so when we started i my hair was like medium length and i knew that i wanted dougie to be kind of an unkempt slob who's like obviously not fit to be in charge of anything let alone a business a company so my hair was like medium and for the audition i just like teased it out and made it all kind of crazy and it gets big like that

And then I was on a show called Kevin Can Fuck Himself a few years ago that was on AMC.

It had got moved over to Netflix.

And I don't know what the algorithm was or whatever, but sometimes you'd scroll through and see my face on the carousel.

So I wasn't concerned that he was going to watch it, but I was like, if he's on Netflix, he could see my face.

Then I was on three national commercials that were running at the same time.

So I was super concerned.

So I was like, all right, step one, I got to grow a Nick-level beard here, maybe even a little bit longer to hide behind that.

Then once we got into the really extensive rehearsal process, which was about, like,

month like five weeks uh and the more i got to know dougie i was like i if i was so i perform at the groundlings too i should say that where we do sketch and improv and we are really big into costumes i own over 50 wigs what would i do to disguise myself we have the costume i have the beard like i would wear a wig i can't do that let's bleach my hair and i was very particular about

I needed to show that the roots, like I didn't want it all the way down to the roots.