Wanda Sykes

I'll show you.

Yeah, but you do a very good job, and your character, whose name is No Mercy, that's her nickname, you have this world-weariness that seems real, like you're dealing with a lot.

Your character's dealing with a lot, and you're getting evicted, and you're going through...

some intense stuff and you're going through intense stuff with your son and you aren't putting any comedy air quotes around it at all do you know what i mean which i think is that's another scary thing to do right but uh you did it really well and i don't know what is it like for you to sit and watch yourself in this situation where you are so not going for laughs

Did that feel scary at all to you?

Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely.

I know after a take, she would say, okay.

And I was like, you sure?

She's like, yeah, I got it.

And I'm like, yeah, but what, you know, is there something else that you need?

She's like,

wanda i got it let's come on let's move on yeah uh but for for me to go back and watch i i couldn't go watch the takes i you know and i'm glad she didn't say you want to see it you know so uh i didn't see it until it was until it was you know completed and then uh my notes a lot of my notes were more about we were just you know the story moving the story yeah yeah

It's so interesting because you go along in a situation where you know when something's working because you hear this very specific sound, but then you're in a situation where that is not the goal anymore.

I mean, in the limited experience I've had doing any kind of acting, it's been, well, where's the laugh?

And you're like, there isn't one.

You moron.

Yeah, yeah.

You moron.

There's no... And you really need to shed all of that, put it away, because that is not the point of what we're doing anymore.