Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Mouse.
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Monica Lion.
Monica Lion. Monica Chinchilla. Mouse of the heart of a lion. Our friend, sweet Darcy Carden is here today.
Yes, Darcy.
What was her robot's name?
Her.
On The Good Place.
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Chapter 2: How does D'Arcy Carden describe her relationship with Sherry Cola?
She is an actor, a comedian, an improv genius.
Yes.
The Good Place, A League of Their Own, Barry, Broad City. Nobody wants this. And currently on Apple TV+, she is on Loot, the endlessly funny show with Maya Rudolph and my good friend Nat Faxon. Please enjoy Darcy Carden.
He's an object expert. Is it intimidating?
Take it in. I feel like I was in
No fucking joke last time?
Not a joke, just it was not done. It was not done. I feel like there was a bathroom with a door not on.
That's right, that's right.
But that was done. That was done, yeah. Darby.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does D'Arcy face when acting emotionally?
Darby. Yeah, does that happen often?
My husband calls me Darby all the time.
Oh, really? That should have been offensive, but it's worked out.
Jason calls me Darby all the time. as a nickname and will say it in front of people and I can see like a look of panic on their faces. Yeah, like have I been saying it wrong?
Does he ever call you Darbles? No, but I want you to. I'm going to. I think that's very cute.
I really want you to call me Darbles. Darbles.
Darbles, how are you? Darbles is good.
Yeah, Darbles is cute. It sounds like a friend of Bam Bam's or Pebbles on the Flintstones.
Yeah. Your hair looks gorgeous.
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Chapter 4: How does D'Arcy Carden feel about her upcoming show, The Five-Star Weekend?
But when you're in New Orleans or something and people want to go on a haunted tour, I'm not so moved to do that. But because of the fear? The fear would be a helpful reason to not do it. But I kind of just don't care because I'm a little bit like I don't believe in it.
Yeah.
Of course.
You're afraid of believing in it. That's how I am. Like, I don't. With the question mark. Right, right, right.
You never know. Right. Okay, we shouldn't go here. But the way some people feel about religion, about God, if they're like, maybe I don't believe in it, but just in case, I do. That's how I feel about ghosts. Yeah. Where I'm like, I don't believe in it, but just in case they're real, maybe I do. Please don't come for me. Yeah.
No, okay, but to really get into that, the God one has a clear incentive. Like, I don't really believe, but I'm making enough space that if there is, I get to go to heaven. Is the ghost thing to appease their egos? Like, I should believe just enough so I don't offend them?
Because if they do want to haunt me, I want them to be friendly.
Yes, 100%.
To be like, oh, I proved you were real, babe.
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Chapter 5: What was D'Arcy's experience like auditioning for Dax?
But I think that's more stressful because I was directing.
Yes. Yeah, you were directing it and you were there when I walked into the audition. And it's like, this is so strange. But weirdly, I was like, I've done like 40 commercials. I feel fine about this. Right. And it was a little bit like, I'm fine doing this.
It was almost beneath you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chapter 6: How did D'Arcy transition from nanny to friend with Dax?
The actual spot was like an industrial buyout-y one. So it was actually below you.
And was that your first time auditioning for Dax?
Well, I had already just hired her for Chips. She had an actual role.
That was horrible. Yeah, yeah. Because then I didn't even know. Right. I was so excited.
Chapter 7: What insights does D'Arcy share about her role in Loot?
I was so flattered. This is before I was nannying. I was just babysitting. Okay, okay, okay. I knew he was working on Chips and he said, I wrote you a role. Yeah. And I was like, huh? What? Yeah. I mean, you know, you know what it's like to be auditioning and not getting anything and someone wrote you a role for their movie.
Chapter 8: How does D'Arcy feel about her physical appearance and weight changes?
I was shocked and I was so excited and so happy. And then I was like, Oh, no.
I know. I know. I know. Oh, no. And I can only let him down. This is like something that I think I really appreciate that Bill did, which is after the fact, he said they almost named the character Darcy. I don't think it could have been an offer because I had done hardly anything at that point. But the pressure. So anyway, I didn't know that until later.
But going in a little bit, not blind, but he's not in the room.
He's related. He's not making the decision. I think feeling like someone's doing you a favor is complicated. Yeah, it is complicated. Because it's so nice. I mean, it's the nicest thing that can happen in this business. And then you feel like, oh, my God, they put themselves out there and I don't know how to act. Right.
All of a sudden, you don't know how to act. I forgot last week. Yeah, that's how it feels.
Yeah. I totally agree. It's so funny. I read something years ago that Allison Janney insists on. I don't know if she still does, but insists on auditioning, even with an offer. She's like, let's work together first. Yeah. Make sure. Yeah. Bill never, ever for one second made me feel like it was anything but earned. You know, he just was really good. Really, really good to me.
Now, did you, though, transfer effortlessly into peer? No. Do you still feel this original dynamic?
We have such a long history of me being his nanny. I don't know if that'll ever fully go away. It's been 16 years now that I've known him and that we've been so close. So we have totally moved into real friendship, almost like in a family way. But there is always this sort of thing of, I don't mean to say like boss. It's not even that.
It's just, I'll never let go of the fact that I was nanny for so long. I can easily access it. I could easily... sort of tip into like assistant feeling. You know what I mean? Like, let me get that for you or whatever, which he would never want. But that's just sort of the foundation.
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