Special Guest
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516 appearances
11 recordings
7 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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And so when I got a call, they were like, you want to go in for the comeback? I said, do I want to go in for the comeback? Yes, of course.
So I go in, and it's just taped. And then she's like, okay, Michael Patrick King's directing this episode. He'll look at it. I was like, oh, Michael Patrick King wrote Sex and the City and is an icon? She was like, yeah, he's directing, and he'll look at the tape and see. He picked me. I come in. I play a journalist that's giving value shares a hard time.
And I even asked him if I could kind of adjust the line. He was like, yeah, yeah, that sounds better. I said, okay. Now he and I, our parking spots are next to each other.
But yeah, that was the beginning. And then I got a call about this Untitled Aziz Ansari project, and they really want to go in. And I went and sat down with Aziz and Alan Yang and just talked to him. Because Aziz was like, I don't want to just audition people. He's like, I want to meet people first. Yeah. And if they cool, you know. That's very British of him, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
So I went to his house, met with him. And it felt like a writer meeting because I was used to TV writer meetings. Sure. And I was just myself. I had just fallen in love. I was like telling that story and just talking shit. And then I got like, okay, he wants you to audition. And I was like, okay. So I go in and I read with him.
And it was just... It was just so natural. It was as if we'd been talking forever. And they were laughing and reacting. And I was like, is that how it's supposed to go? And then I was just like, you know, I left. And I got called in to test. And then he was like, do you want to come and do this show in New York and play my friend? The show didn't even have a title.
And I was just like, yeah, man, because I was obsessed with Parks and Rec.
I loved him.
And so, and it was really like, and Michael Schur was a producer on it, but it was really, it was almost like Michael Schur said, okay, I'm gonna let these kids go do their own thing. And yeah, I just went to New York and started doing that. And then when it came out and people started watching it, that was really the beginning. And so that's really how the acting career sort of began.
Oh my gosh. Okay. Watch this.
So the first movie, look. Sterling. Okay. My first movie ever. Uh-huh. is because of Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg cast me in Ready Player One. That's her first fucking movie. Oh, I'm sorry.
That's because you sold a distinguished gentleman. You have to be an Oscar nominee. Come on.
You know, you can't be doing AT&T commercials. We out here is different.
And that's it.
It's like, because we got to work together, every time me and Chrissy see each other, you would feel like we went to camp together. It's just like... I love that. It was just such a fun day. It was a very emotional scene, obviously, as people know.
And I just love seeing her out in the world and just giving her hugs and being like, hey, what's up? Good to see you.
I have got two pups. I got two dogs. You do? Okay. I do. Caleb and Gigi. I felt it in the scene. I was like, she loves dogs.
They're not here with me right now. They're in Los Angeles. I'm in London. We miss them. But we know people that we get the pictures sent and video sent to us when we're away. That's the kind of party it is because you miss the pups when you're gone. But you got to travel. You don't want to schlep them everywhere all the time. And I had a dog, I think, at the time where I was about to get a dog.
So it was just exciting to be on set with like,
Okay. My people would kill me if I didn't plug my own podcast.
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