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Hello, everyone.

Welcome to another episode of Good Hang.

Thank you for being here.

We had,

well, look, we're keeping the parks and rec hits coming because we had Adam Scott last week and we have the great, beautiful, and wonderful Aubrey Plaza joining us.

Aubrey, who many of you have wanted to hear from, is here and we couldn't be more excited.

And we talk about a lot of things today.

We talk about how we first met on a playground.

We talk about her time as an NBC page and why she got fired.

We talk about her love of basketball.

And we talk about her new movie, Honey Don't, which is in theaters this week.

And so there's just so much good stuff.

And we're very glad that she was here and that you're here listening.

And we always start our episodes the same way.

We try to find someone that knows our guest, knows something about them, and has a question for them.

And we are talking to a great actress today.

You know her from The Substance and Maid

and many other great films and her beautiful dancing.

And it is the beautiful and talented Margaret Qualey.

Margaret?

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Where are we talking to you from?

I'm home.

I'm home and I'm in a hallway.

Okay, perfect.

It's really good to see you.

And I know you're doing press

podcast, by the way.

I've been listening to it.

It's so good.

Thanks, Margaret.

Today is this very special day because

we have

really our most requested guest coming on today.

Like it's, you know, people have really, really wanted to hear from and hear me and Aubrey talk about a lot of things.

And I'm just so psyched she's here.

She might be the most like unanimously loved person ever.

Like, yeah.

Even like

my dad's really not

like,

you know, he like barely has a phone.

He doesn't have a TV.

But like when I when he found out I was doing a movie with Aubrey, he was like, oh, I fucking love her.

Like, man, she's so funny.

Like he's so, he was so excited.

Like, she, she reached my dad.

She's got the dad.

She, but she's not everybody.

Like,

I just,

I just love her.

I just think she's the best.

You know, it's so funny to say that too, because I was thinking she's also, kids really like Aubrey because she acts like a cat, right?

So like.

Dogs come and meet, greet you at the door, but cats just kind of chill and wait for you to come to them.

And kids really like like that like she never you know my i remember my boys on the set of parks and she would just like walk by and say something to them like on the way past them and they'd be like who was that

i'd also imagine that she'd like talk to a kid like an adult yes you know yes like just meet them where they are like it's rough out there right like yeah totally yeah yeah yeah she's really um as the people like to say she's she appeals to four quadrants um

and um you guys have worked together is this the is honey don't which is the film that you're, you both are in, that you're the star of?

Congratulations coming out very soon.

It looks so great.

And, and is this the first time you've worked together, the two of you?

Yeah, we met on set.

I was, I've been such a big fan of hers for such a long time.

And I think Parks and Rec was probably my intro to her, which is just like one of the best shows of all time.

And you guys together are so special.

But I've, I've like felt like I, I think she has that quality where you feel like you know her even when you don't um so like i already loved her so much even before meeting her and i i would have been so bummed if she didn't like me

i'm projecting on this on you so i don't tell me if i get i'm getting it wrong but you both to me seem like you know in some ways introverted artists in an extroverted business.

Like,

do you do you relate to that?

Definitely.

Yeah.

I mean, it's like, you know, the classic case of a, oh, look at me.

Don't look at me.

You know.

It's totally.

Yeah.

Right.

Everybody pay attention.

Like, what are you looking at?

I want to show you something.

Stop.

What a, what?

What's the phone?

Be alone.

So, what was it like working together on set?

For, for, for those that don't know, you guys are, what is your dynamic in the film?

And then what was it like working together?

Dynamic in the film is i play this like suave detective and she plays this like cool

uh cop and we kind of hit it off right away and it kind of feels like we've like met our match like I usually as a character feel like I'm in the power seat and when I come across Aubrey's character that's really challenged and I think she actually is in the power seat.

And on set,

it's a really fun set.

It's Ethan Cohen and Tricia Cook's movie, and they're just great.

And like,

they're at once, you know, super accomplished and

like these great artists, but really don't take themselves seriously.

So it's like a

silly, laid-back,

goofy, fun vibe there.

But,

you know, Aubrey,

I think in order for somebody to come across, there's like, there's a lot to be so effortless takes some effort, you know, and she's like, she's, she cares like in the best way.

She's thoughtful and considerate and

brought so much depth to her character.

And

it was, you know, just like kind of consistently surprising everyone with just,

you know, her

the thing that she does.

I think you bring up a really good point, which is,

you know,

she's,

she started out anyway, especially on Parks and Rec playing like a very disaffected character.

But the secret to that character and Aubrey is that she cares very deeply.

Yeah.

And

I think people like project on her that she's indifferent.

And she's definitely not.

No, no.

I was wondering if you had a question you thought I should ask Aubrey on this day that you'd be curious to know about, or like you want any topic you think we should cover.

I don't know why the first thing that came into my mind was the Salem witch trials, but

was she

in them?

Is that the question?

Probably, you know.

Well, yeah, what was it like being in the Salem Witch Trials?

Margaret, we love you.

I would love to get you in the stewed.

Anytime.

Okay.

Oh, buddy.

And,

you know, I know Plaza will be so happy that you did this and surprised and happy that you did it.

And also, I know.

That you and many people in her life have been real big supports and a real circle of love during very tough times.

So on behalf of her, I'm going to say thank you.

And it's so easy.

It's easiest to love.

Thank you for having me.

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aubrey plaza is here and she has her sunglasses on and

i'll take them off if you want well i do because they i know

i'll put them on again let me see i mean they look very cool frankie what are you doing that's so creepy

plazi's here and her sweet dog frankie is here too when you wear the glasses, you do look very Howard Stern.

It's because my hair, too.

Yeah.

Right now, it's like

I mean, it makes you look cool, but as an interviewer, I don't love it.

Oh my god.

Sorry.

Your doggy Frankie is here with you, too.

Yes.

Tell us about Frankie.

Okay.

Have we started?

Yeah, we started.

Oh.

And just like that.

Frankie is my dog.

Her name is Frances.

Right.

Fox.

She's named after Judy Garland.

That's Judy Garland's real name.

She's a good dog.

She's a good dog.

She got a little sick this morning.

That's why I brought her.

I'm not like

a bring my dog to work kind of person so much.

Do you ever bring her on set for anything?

Do you?

No.

But she's really like with you a lot.

She is now.

Yeah.

This is a recent, this year recent kind of thing.

Yeah.

She's like she's like a therapy dog

in many ways and it has always been for you, but it's really been.

Yeah.

She is.

She's always been like that.

Well, I mean

to just to get it out of the way people want to see you.

I want to see how you are.

They love you.

I know.

They love you and they want to see you.

So you've had this terrible, terrible, tragic year.

Yeah.

You lost your husband.

You've been dealing with that and you've been looking for all different ways in which to feel and find support.

And I think I would, on behalf of all the people who feel like they know you and the people who do know you, how are you feeling today?

I'm, I mean, right in this very, very

present moment, I feel happy to be with you.

I feel

overall, I'm here and I'm functioning, and I feel,

you know, like I feel really grateful to be moving through the world I think like

I'm okay

but you know it's like a

daily struggle obviously this is like a really dumb analogy but and it was kind of a joke at a certain point but like I actually mean it did you see that movie The Gorge?

No.

Okay.

Horror movie?

It's like an alien movie or something with like Miles

Teller.

Teller.

And um, but it's like in the movie, there, there's like a cliff on one side, and then there's like a cliff on the other side, and then there's like gorge in between, and it's like filled with all these like monster people that are trying to get them.

And like, I swear when I watched it, I was like, that is like feels like what my grief is like, where it's like, or what grief could be like, where it's like, at all times, there's like a

giant like ocean of just awfulness that's like right there, and I can like see it.

And like, sometimes I just want to

just dive into it and just like be in it.

And then, and then sometimes I just like look at it, and then sometimes I'm like, I just try to get away from it, but it's always there, it's just always there.

And the monster people are trying to get me, like Miles Teller, yeah, and and Anya Taylor Joy,

yeah,

who Anya Taylor Joy to me

is the the, is the, is an example of like

the more beautiful you are, the more spaced out your eyes are.

Yes.

And Rihanna,

who, and that's how she says it, guys.

What?

Rihanna.

Yeah.

Rihanna.

Yes.

Check out the clips.

Not saying it ever.

Well, Rihanna is so beautiful, and her eyes are truly on the side of her head.

Yeah.

Just like a horse.

And yes.

And

that's why horses are so beautiful.

Well, I feel, here's how I feel about horses.

I feel like horses are fine.

You hate them.

I don't hate them.

I don't hate horses.

I would love to talk about animals.

No.

No.

Because I feel, I feel like I, I, I, I think horses are beautiful and they're a little bit scary to me.

And I'm like, I respect them, but I, I'm not, I don't really want to be near them.

And that's not how you feel about Rihanna.

No, I'd love to.

truly like be in a stall with Rihanna and feed her a sugar cube if she let me.

I want to talk to you about many things today.

Okay.

Okay.

But the first person I want to talk to is Little Baby Plaza.

No.

Why?

Okay.

No, I don't need you to act like a baby.

Oh, okay.

I just mean I want to talk to you.

We're going to do role play.

We're going to do real intense role play.

A bunch of hats.

No.

Okay.

No, but because I love little young Plaza and I feel like a lot of people don't, I think a lot of people are like little Young Plaza out there and they see themselves in you.

But can you explain what kind of kid you were?

Oh, okay.

I was,

I mean, I think

before, I would say like before seven, I think I was like pretty shy.

Like I was kind of like a

quiet, like lanky kind of,

I don't know, freakish kind of kid, maybe.

Really thin hair.

Like, my ponytail was like, look like this.

Just like one little strand, basically.

I would try to have ponytails.

Your hair looks really good right now.

It's got thicker.

It gets thicker as I get.

I got pieces in?

No.

Shit.

It gets thicker as I get it.

It's gotten really thick.

Tina Fey, watch out, pitch.

Watch out, pitch.

Watch out.

I'm coming for you.

She's going to brush that hair.

Like a real brush.

Tina Fey.

Nobody's going to beat Tina's hair.

Nobody.

Watch me.

Sorry, babe.

My money's on Tina.

I've seen that hair.

It's incredible.

Watch me.

I was definitely around a lot of people, like hectic kind of, you know,

childhood, I think.

So like, I was a very, I was like, definitely an observer, but like definitely living in my imagination.

Like, I could just imagine things all day long.

Where did you grow up?

Grew up in Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware.

Yeah.

Ever heard of it?

Nope.

Never been.

Never heard of it.

Joe Biden.

The land of Joe Biden.

Joe Biden.

Who we met.

Yeah.

Who we met.

Well, you've met many times.

Oh, yeah.

But, you know, for people fast forward to when we were in parks, we got to go when

President Biden was in Vice President Biden.

We got to go to Mississippi.

I'll never forget it.

And it was pretty exciting.

It was amazing.

It was amazing.

It was super, super fun.

And I've told this story before, but Aubrey stole something from his desk.

Yeah.

I did.

I stole.

There was, we were getting a tour of his office and of the White House, right?

Yeah.

And I saw a little like vice president monogrammed notebook piece of paper that said like Aubrey Plaza and then like three facts about me like Wilmington, Delaware, Ursuline Academy.

We met, we met, blah, blah, blah.

Cause that's what the politicians all do.

They get their little sure.

And then you're like, oh my God, how did you remember?

You know?

And I swiped it.

And Mike Scher was like, you cannot steal something.

Do you think?

And I was was like, oh, shut up, Mike.

And he was like, we're literally in the White House.

And I was like, we are.

We live right here.

And you didn't get in trouble.

No one ever knew.

No one knew.

I am kind of surprised that there's no like alarm system in it.

There's nothing in there.

It's like a house of.

It is.

It is weird how janky the White House actually is.

It's janky as fuck.

It is janky as fuck.

I didn't see any cameras.

And it is like, it's like SNL.

Like you go in there, you're like, this is the White House?

I know.

Like, this place sucks.

You're like, that pillow is disgusting.

It's like, it's like a hotel room used for a million years.

I know.

It is bad.

It's weird.

But, you know, now it's going to be big and beautiful.

It has to be gorgeous now.

Okay.

So then you're in Delaware.

What kind of shows did you do as a little kid?

Like, what were your parts that you got to sink into?

Baby Plaza Theater was the Wilmington Drama League.

I went there.

My older cousin was doing the Crucible.

And I remember just watching and being like, oh my god this is so cool and then I auditioned I think the first thing

oh yeah the first thing I got was Hansel and Gretel

you played

chorus tree okay tree number four maybe no small no small trees yeah actually yeah I was um actually

um fun fact I got my period um

on stage at the drama league um you use that you just used it yeah I'm gonna use this I blood I went I started bleeding and then my cousin took me in the bathroom.

I was like, what's happening?

And she was like, I'm bleeding.

And then I was like, get on out there.

The show must go on.

And then I did.

And I was like, and you were like, and you felt totally different.

You were like, my cheek is a woman now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was awesome.

That's exciting.

I was mainly in the chorus a lot.

Yeah.

I always wanted to be, you know, like Annie or whatever.

But I never, but the bigger, the big part that I got that like kind of changed things for me was

I got the ugly stepsister and Cinderella.

And I really wanted to be Cinderella, like all everybody.

And then and then they were like ugly stepsister.

And I was like, damn it.

Because I know that's the better part.

It was the better part.

Yeah.

And it taught me, like, I brought down the house with my song and it taught me like comedy is where it's at.

I was like, I'm getting all the laughs.

I was like, Cinderella sucks.

I bet you have the same memory that I have is like when you get your first laugh that you mean to get, like people laugh at you.

But when you get a laugh that you mean to get, it's like becoming a vampire.

Yeah.

Like you're like,

you're like, I'm fully realized.

Like I have all the power.

Yeah.

I can do anything.

It's the best feeling.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then you graduate.

You go to NYU.

Then I graduated.

Then I went to NYU.

So do you remember like

arriving in New York City and what that was like?

It was crazy.

Yeah.

I was like, I mean, I was so ready to go to New York, mainly because of UCB.

You know, which is people listening, it was a sketch and improv theater that myself and Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh started in 90.

We moved to the city in 96.

So you were arriving when?

I came to the city in 2002.

But like growing up,

I knew about UCB before, you know, I went to New York.

How did you know about it?

Just curious.

Neil Casey.

I mean, we

Neil was one of my best friends growing up.

He is still one of my best friends.

He was a a bit older than me, and he was really into comedy.

He showed me like Mr.

Show and Kids in the Hall.

And like, we got really into, and obviously Saturday Night Live was like really big for me growing up, too.

So like, we just, yeah, we were like super big comedy nerds.

And part of the reason I wanted to go to NYU and go to New York is to take classes at UCB.

So that was like, I was like ready.

And you were like studying in.

Then taking classes at the same time.

You were doing both?

Yeah.

I started doing it like immediately.

What were you majoring in at NYU?

I don't think I know.

I majored in film,

like directing and writing.

More than almost anyone I know, I love studying, watching, and talking about movies.

I love movies.

I love movies.

All I need is movies.

I don't need anything else or anyone else.

But movies, what do you do with your phone when you're watching a movie?

Are you able to fully.

You are.

I am.

I am.

And I'm not just saying that.

I think I am.

I'm also really not good at technology.

I'm like,

I'm a real boomer-like person when it comes to technology.

No, I will say, you taught when it comes to technology, I have a memory that

you've taught me many lessons.

But I remember one time I was texting on the set of parks to someone who was bothering me or like asking something from me.

I forget what the situation was.

And I was like composing this really long text and you grabbed my phone and you just type no.

And you sent it to me.

Really?

You don't remember that?

No.

I don't remember anything.

And it was

very illuminating because it was just basically like it really underneath it was like, first of all, don't be like beholden to your phone.

Like, yeah, life is happening around you.

And also, you don't owe anybody any long explanation.

Wow, I know.

That's so remember that?

No, I feel like that's something you would do to me.

I feel like you taught me how to say no.

Well, maybe I taught it and then forgot it.

Damn.

You did it back to me.

Wow.

Like, like karate kid style.

Um, okay, so then you go to New York.

Where do you live when you're in the dorms?

I go to New York.

My parents dropped me off on 3rd Avenue and 11th Street.

Oh my God, I used to live right around there near Webster Hall.

Yeah.

I lived right on, I lived in the Third North dorms.

And then I ended up moving.

I got out of the dorms earlier than you're like technically allowed to because there was like a mice issue.

And so there were too many mice in the and they were like, you have to leave.

Like the mice took over.

The mice took over to the point where I will never forget I was on the top bunk

and I was being very quiet because I was like reading a book or something and like nobody else you were as quiet as a mouse I was as quiet as a mouse

and I literally was just like reading for like I don't know maybe 20 minutes or something and all of a sudden there was a Thanksgiving Day parade of mice.

They were like having trumpets.

They were like,

and they all just started parading back and forth, like selling things.

And it was like a flea market.

They came out and they were like, it was was insane.

Like, I was like, ah, and I was like, I couldn't.

On your floor?

On the ground.

Like,

like in our clothes.

Like, in our, it was like a messy room, too.

So it was like, they were just like, like, they had, like, were wearing my clothes.

They were like running around dancing.

Like, they were just.

They were like those Richard Scary books.

Remember those things where it was like, like, they were like building, they were like in little cars.

Yeah, you're hot down here.

Yes.

It was insane.

And I was like screaming.

I was like, this is fucking disgusting.

And NYU was like, you got to get out.

Yeah.

They were like, be quiet and get out.

So I got out.

And then I moved.

And then I moved right down the block to second and 11th.

I got in with these like older musical theater girls that like took me in.

And then I lived there for a couple of years.

And then you studied at UCB.

And then a lot of people don't know that you, well, I mean, I think some people know because you talked about it on SNL, but then you found, you got an internship at SNL.

Oh, yes.

How did you get that?

I,

so I faxed my resume.

That's amazing.

Remember that?

That's amazing.

Where are you looking?

I don't know.

At the audience?

I'm just looking over here.

I'm looking at my facts.

I imagined

that there were people.

I'm looking.

I'm checking to see if I got any other faxes.

Hello?

Yeah, I faxed my resume to every department

because there was.

There was just like a number.

There was like a paper on some wall at NYU that had like all the department numbers.

It was like 212, 667.

Yes.

212.

Like down or 664, whatever.

It was 667.

Remember 212?

Oh, yeah.

I still have a 212 number.

I'm so jealous.

I wish I had a landline.

I still have a landline.

That's nice.

Yeah.

But yeah, I faxed my resume to every department and I didn't get anything.

And then on a Friday night, on the week of

the 2005

season

I got a call from the design department and they were like we got your resume like we need someone like can you come interview and it was Regina DiChico if you remember Regina

and I was like

yeah I was like I'm available it was like Friday at like I want to say like 4 p.m.

or 5 p.m.

or something she was like she's like how about right now and I was like okay and so then I like went up to 30 Rock like immediately saw Ben Affleck.

Sure, just there.

Who was like, I guess

he was hosting that episode.

I just like remember how crazy it was just walking in for the first time because I was just interviewing.

So I was like, I didn't know what was going on, but it was a Friday night.

So I guess they were blocking or rehearsing.

And

they had fired.

The design department only ever had one intern, couldn't cut it.

Yeah.

Mainly because he wanted to be in design.

Yeah.

And

they were like, you, no, Yeah, you can't.

No.

He was like, so the blueprints of the, and they were like, get the fuck out of here.

Literally.

They were like, fuck off.

And he was like,

and then I came in and they were like, do you care about design?

And I was like, no.

And they were like, can you start now?

And I was like, yeah.

What is the design part of SNL for people they don't know?

Like, what is design?

What does a design

do?

Because it's a big, it's very important part of the show.

There's,

you have to imagine the sets have to be built somehow.

Yeah.

And very fast.

Yeah.

Because basically, as you know, on Tuesday night's the writing night and then Wednesday night is when all the sketches get chosen.

Yeah.

And so there's really only Wednesday to Saturday and then they have to like figure out all the sets in between.

I remember what I had to do is like once the, I was there all Wednesday night, like until three in the morning or whatever.

And then once the sketches were picked, I would, they would like send, they would be like, go in the filing cat, literally in the filing cabinet and find restaurant number 72 or something.

And then I would like sift through and find these like

blueprints, I guess, for whatever.

And then I would just watch them and they would like draw stuff and, and that's it.

And then the, the other job I had was to take continuity photos.

And that was cool because you guys would be rehearsing and I'd be like, and everyone thought I worked there.

I had a camera around whatever.

And I just was like very quiet and just kind of like taking pictures of the sets, of the plants, of the things.

I mean, it blows my mind, Plazi, that we were sharing.

I mean, you were there.

I stalked you.

I think now about the people that are crossing our lives right now that are like in our proximity that we don't know yet.

That it's like it's really cool that we were in the same physical space.

I know.

I didn't know each other.

It's so crazy.

It still blows my mind.

And then you were giving tours.

I was giving tours, yeah.

And a lot of people know that you just gave.

You just made stuff up on that.

I did.

Yeah.

I got fired.

I didn't get fired, but I got pretty much encouraged to leave

pretty quickly.

What were some things you would make up?

Do you remember?

I mean,

I don't remember like specific thing.

I feel like there was one thing,

this is when I was a page.

Like, there was one speech I had to give about, like,

I guess it was like

Conan's studio or something.

That's, that.

studio and and it was like very cold and it was there was just like weird facts where they'd be like does anyone you know know why it's so cold in the the studio?

And people would be like, Why is it so cold?

Because of the lights.

And I'd be like, No, because in 1956

they had penguins on the show, and the penguins needed to be cold so they wouldn't die.

And they forgot to turn the heat down after that.

So it's been cold since like 1956.

And people would be like, Well, that's interesting.

Okay, then you get

you're

like doing comedy, doing shows.

And

we meet not on SNL, even though we're in the same building, but we meet on the set of Parks and Rec.

And for people that don't know, like you had a crazy week when you got hired.

You got like three jobs that same week.

What happened that week you were hired on Parks?

So I basically, I was like trying to get a

part in Funny People, the Judd Appetal movie with Seth Rogan and Adam Sandler.

And I went through kind of this whole vetting process in New York.

And then enough where Allison Jones, who cast that movie and Parks and Reck,

was called me and was like, all right, like you made it to the chemistry read stage.

So you have to come out to LA and read with Seth and see if you get the part basically.

And so, but I didn't really have an agent or anything.

And I kind of had to like pay my way, you know, to go out there.

So it was like a little bit janky, but I got myself out there

to do that.

And then while I was out in LA for that week to do the funny people thing, Allison was like, How about I send you on some other things?

Like, how do you feel about that?

And so, yeah, so one of them was

she wanted me to go meet Mike Scher and Greg Daniels, who at the time were shooting on the office.

And they were shooting, they were on the set of the office.

So she sent me to the set of the office.

And

I didn't even, I guess at that time, I didn't realize, like, I didn't think like, oh, I could, these meetings

will it get me a job?

I didn't mean to be a good thing.

I think it's one of the things about being young that's kind of nice is you're not really aware what you're actually like, what's at stake.

No, and that's definitely not that.

I mean, if it was an audition, obviously, I know, like, all right, I'm gonna get the part or not.

But, like, general meetings, I didn't really get the vibe of that.

How old were you then?

I was 24, 23, 23, maybe.

But so then I went to the set of the office and I was so starstruck.

I see in my horse eye

BJ Novak and Mindy Kaling walk by and I was like, oh my God, I was like, they're in the show or whatever.

And Mike Scher is like, hello.

And he's like at his desk like, and I'm like, what?

And then I just met him for like, he describes it.

He really embellishes this story, I think.

He loves this story.

I mean, he's like, and then I met the weirdest person on there.

I'm like, there's no bigger fan of Aubrey Plaza than Mike Scher.

Yeah, right.

He loves it, though, because I think like, I mean, it just speaks to honestly the fact that

you've always been yourself, confidently yourself, and you don't have a vibe of like, you don't, you are the opposite of a pick-me, as the kids would say.

Like you, you do not have that vibe.

And that draws people in.

And I think he was like, who is this person?

Yeah.

Who seems mad at me while I try to give her a job?

Yeah.

Literally.

And why are you wearing jean shorts in a general meeting?

Like ripped jean shorts.

And you were like, I didn't know what this was.

No.

And then I got a phone call and they were like,

you're on a TV show.

I'm like, what?

No.

But then which one?

Why no?

What?

You're like the office?

Yeah.

I literally probably said that.

I didn't know what was going on.

And then they were like,

actually, you got the part, but actually

you have to audition to play yourself.

You don't have to name names, but I wonder who else was up to play you.

I don't think that that anyone.

Oh, right.

I just one person.

I think they just made me do it like for the network or something.

I think I found out later.

I mean, maybe not.

I don't know.

It's probably like, you know.

Yeah.

It was you, Sharon Stone, and Gina Gershon.

Yeah.

So you get the part.

We're on the set.

And then, like, I mean, we could do a whole, obviously, we could do a whole episode about our experiences there.

And there are so, like,

I mean, I don't, the best thing about our relationship, I feel like, is I don't, like all like a lot of, I think, long-lasting relationships is you don't always like remember how you met.

Like I just remember like just, I just have this vision of you being next to me on the set of that show and me being like, welcome.

Like, you know, Leslie was supposed to be like welcoming April and April was supposed to be like, what am I doing here?

And Amy was welcoming Aubrey.

And Aubrey was like, what am I doing here?

Truly, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I remember when we first met, and I think I told you this story.

It was

the

promos that we shot.

That's right.

And

which was weird because we hadn't shot the show yet.

And the rest of the cast hadn't even been cast yet.

I think at that point it was just like Aziz, me, you,

maybe another Rashida.

Yeah, I don't think we had Nick yet.

I don't think so, but they had me

and I was there, like physically there.

So they shot this promo of us on a swing set and that's when I met you like officially for the first time and I think I was literally on a swing like a child like and I was like

and I was like just don't make any sudden movements

except swinging except swinging and then you which is kind of good because swinging is really good somatically yeah yeah for me like I liked um but then yeah you came over and we were both just swinging like little babies that's how we met on a swing we met on a playground which is kind of nice really nice And it feels like the show was that.

Like it was, it felt like a true like playground space.

It really was.

Like, we, I mean, I loved and love working with you.

I love playing with you.

I love acting with you.

I love you as an actor.

I love you as a person.

I love your acting, Plazi.

You know how good I think you are.

I love playing with you.

And I feel like...

Our dynamic, well, like the arc of,

in many ways, like April had the biggest growth in the show.

She goes from

truly not wanting to be where she is to, like, you know,

ending the show, like, with some kind of purpose and a love in her life and like some, also like a,

she kind of stands up for what she doesn't want to do, which is a big part of your 20s.

Like,

but

when you started that character, when you started her, did you have any idea where you thought it would go?

Did you have any,

you know what?

Did you, did you know?

Yeah.

No, I just,

no, I think I just, once I realized like, oh, what's so fun about this character is that like

it's a game of

not showing anyone that I really care.

Yes.

And like once I've locked into that, it was real, like, it felt like there was.

no limit to like the growth or like what could happen because if you hint that there's something else going on it's like you can kind of play with that and also in different ways with every different character so I feel like maybe on an unconscious level but I felt like oh there's so much to play with even though it feels really subtle and simple yeah that was her secret is she cared but she pretended she didn't and so when it would pop out it was so satisfying yeah it was so funny and good and the ways in which she tried to keep those things hidden were so funny Yeah.

And then I think just the Andy April thing was such an organic, like I had no idea that was going to become a thing until that one episode.

So let's talk about that.

So Andy

played by Chris Pratt.

And you,

April and Andy had an episode where a bunch of us were off like doing the, like a harvest.

We're at the harvest festival.

We're at some festival.

Where you guys were.

We were doing something together.

Yeah.

Or you were like camping or something.

Oh, yeah, maybe.

Oh, yeah.

We were like cabins.

And so they put you guys in the office and just said, let's see what happens to these two characters when they hang out.

Yeah.

And basically, the chemistry that those characters had was the building block for why they eventually became like the real romantic love story of the show, other than Leslie and Ann.

Yeah.

Because Anne doesn't deserve.

Don't talk about Anne.

Sorry.

But what do you remember of that day?

I have a visit.

Well, Greg Daniels directed the episode, which I will always remember because he was so delighted.

Like he had such a like little kid energy.

And he was so,

he just was like very willing to like, let's just try things.

And

we had a whole day where we were just playing.

It was like kind of like what you said, like the office, like the bull room or bullpen?

Yeah, we call it the bullpen.

The bull room.

The bullpen like became a playground.

And I just remember, I have an image of like us sitting under the table.

We were like under that main table for a while.

Like, I don't even know what we were doing down there.

Um, but we were under there.

And I just remember, I don't know, it just felt, it was so fun.

It just felt like I remember before then, there was, I think it was like the finale of the, maybe the first season, or I don't remember what season, but

there was a very subtle moment where we're all in a group, we're in a circle, and

Andy's like saying something about his band or he's like something about like, I think like this band name is cool or whatever.

And everyone else is like, no.

And April's, and I was just like, I like it.

And it was like an improvised thing, but I remember, do you remember that?

Where I remember being like, and then I remember like knocking on Mike Scher's like door and being like, listen, I was like, April loves Andy and April thinks Andy's cool because he's so not cool that he's cool.

Do you understand?

And Mike was like, get out of here.

And I was like, I was like, you better listen to me.

No, you did.

You knocked on his head.

It was like, I mean, yeah, it was more like just a little conversation.

That was, it was like a, it was like a layer to that character because you become his advocate.

Like, and that's the part of April that like, is like another interesting layer is like, again, she acts like nothing matters and she's, you know, completely disaffected, but she's actually very fiercely loyal.

Yeah.

And very,

and like sticks up for people she believes in, which I think is a character character trait of you too, Plazi.

Like you're very, you're a very loyal friend.

Yeah.

You're a really, really protective friend.

And you really stick up for people who you love.

And that side of it was so great because then we got to see her like manage him, care about the band, see potential for him that he didn't see in himself.

And

he was just like, I can't believe how lucky I am.

And I remember remember when the writers had you guys get married, we were all like, what?

I know.

That was insane.

What do you remember of that day shooting it?

There was a lot of crying.

You cried.

I mean, I love a wedding.

You cried.

I remember you cried in the kitchen and then you were like crying like off camera.

And I was like, stop.

I cried that much.

Yes, you did.

You like literally cried all day.

It was so weird.

I was so happy you were in love.

You were like crying all day.

There was like, I was like, stop crying all day.

I was like, we're not even at the camera.

I was like, we're in my trailer.

Like, why are you doing this?

And you were like, how do you feel?

I'm like, oh my God, no, I feel like.

I'm ordering a salad for lunch.

Like, this is my job.

I was crying because you were crying so hard and I was worried that we weren't going to get the shot.

I was crying because I was sad at how much you were crying.

I don't think so.

I think that you thought it was real.

Yeah, I assumed it was legally binding.

Yes.

But it was so good.

And the vows were so funny.

Yeah.

And the wedding was so stupid.

It was so funny.

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Okay.

I mean, I guess, like, when, do you watch, have you re-watched Parks and Rec?

Nope.

What?

I'm finding this out.

Okay.

I wouldn't even know how.

Shut up.

Okay.

Okay.

You asked me how.

You've never watched

the big giant screen that you watch your movies on.

How does it work?

Go blue.

And go to.

Go to.

Go to what?

Type in where the search is.

How?

Someone tell me.

Peacock.

No.

Yes.

Yes.

Go there.

Or go to iTunes.

I wish I knew how.

Or go to,

you know,

just pick up your controller and just switch on

into it and it'll come up.

Okay, it's probably not the right one.

Go to your DVDs.

You love your DVDs.

I wish I had one right now.

But you've never re-watched it?

No.

I don't know what's wrong with you guys.

If it comes on in a hotel room, I literally throw something.

I throw it.

Adam says, I will literally break the song.

Adam says watching the show makes him sad.

Nick has told me he has not re-watched it.

Liar, he jerks off to it every night.

You know, he sits there and like touches himself.

You're so bright.

He's got it on right now.

Nick, Nick.

Shruck, Tammy.

You're right.

He does watch it for Tammy.

He watches real life.

Megan Millally.

They get off on that.

They watch it too.

They watch it.

You're so right.

They watch it together and they stand there and just slap each other in the face.

They're disgusting.

They're so disgusting.

Nick, I know you're listening.

You're not fooling anybody.

I remember like that episode with April and Ron that very first.

I love that episode.

When we got to play together, I remember like knocking on his door and being like,

I canceled all your meetings today or whatever.

And us just the silence,

the silences between us.

The thing that I love so much about Leslie and April's relationship is that Leslie had a plan for April that, and she kept kind of whispering to April,

you know,

like 2016, a version of like feminism, like you can do it all, you can do whatever you want.

She was like, Women belong in the kitchen.

That's that game I love to play.

The Trad wife thing, she was always like,

She was like, We must respect our man.

And Leslie Knope would be like, No, April, no.

And she'd be like, You must bend over for your man.

I feel like you, did you improvise that?

It feels like

we have improvised.

Two more things about parks.

We had so many fun guest stars come in and like you connected with some of them in interesting ways.

Yeah.

Who do you remember just like love, like just being like, oh, I just like loving the because I feel like my job on set was to be like, welcome, you know, and you got to just come up later and be like, what do you think of this?

Yeah.

You definitely.

Maybe like, it's kind of crazy around here.

Want to see something insane or whatever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You were the cool.

You were the cool kids.

One of the ones I'll never forget is Patricia Clarkson.

Yes.

Totally made out with her.

Never made it on the show.

We should still talk about it.

I made out on the set, not in the trailers.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Sure.

Yeah.

Sure.

Although Patty would probably be fine with both.

That was incredible.

And April really fell for Tammy One.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She was Tammy One.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sure.

I mean, one could argue that Ron's mom was the original Tammy.

Oh, right, right.

Played by Paula Pell.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah, that was a good one.

Yeah, Tammy.

But she was Tammy one, and Malali was Tammy two.

Who else did you play?

I loved her.

Fuck, my brain is so broken.

Remember Sam Elliott?

Let's throw some people out.

You love

Sam Elliott always pausing.

I love Sam Elliott.

You love the actor that played Oren on Parks and Region.

Oh my God, Oren.

Remember Oren?

I love Orin.

Love Oren.

He was so funny and so weird.

He was so funny.

He was like

a vampire boy

that was always like lurking in the shadows eric eisenhower eric played orn and but eric wasn't really the vampire boy i think in in real life but he no but in character but he was very like method yes and i really appreciated that like even when we weren't shooting he'd be kind of like did you try the hummus or whatever and i'd be like yes orin

I you know, yes, whatever.

Who else?

You also helped us,

you helped us secure the mayor.

Oh, honey.

You really helped us get Bill Murray on the show.

Bill Murray.

All you have to say to Bill Murray is, you're playing a cadaver.

And he's like, I'm you.

Do you remember when, I don't know if you remember this, but do you remember when Chris Bosch was on the show, the basketball player?

Chris Bosch, he was a Miami Heat player.

Oh, yes.

And he was a beat.

Was he in like?

I think we had

like different beat basketball, like Roy.

Yeah, we had

Roy.

Yes.

Yeah, Chris Bosch.

Yes.

He was with like Aziz and was he like John Raffio?

Yeah, Entertainment 720.

Yeah.

But like, I don't know if you know this story.

It was a very quick story, but it was so stupid.

But I was a really big Chris Bosch fan.

So like, I was like, oh my God, like, I can't believe he's coming.

Like, this is insane.

I was like, I want to play a prank on him.

Do you know this?

No.

And so he had to go through hair and makeup.

But, you know, he, I think, had very little hair and, you know, whatever.

Didn't need makeup because he's a guy or whatever.

But you know how they always put them through the works anyway yeah so i was like i'm gonna pretend to be the hairstylist

and i think it was it terry maybe was in there and you know how she had those glasses or whatever so i was like terry give me her glasses or i can't remember whatever and i'm thinking like this is gonna be hilarious because it's gonna be me and he'll be like ha ha ha it's you um so i like pretend to be terry i'm like at her station and then he goes through like makeup first and they're like you look good you know, a little powder, and you're good.

And then he like went and he was like, Yeah, yeah, thanks a lot.

And then he sat down in my chair, and I was like, Well,

and I looked at him and I was like, What are we gonna do today?

And I was like doing like a dumb thing, and he didn't make any eye contact with me.

He was just looking down, and he was so sweet, but he didn't make eye contact, he was just like, Yeah, whatever you think.

Oh, no, and you were like, And I was like, Well, I think that

you're looking pretty good, sir.

And he'd be like, Yeah, so I'm good.

All right.

And I'd be like, Well, you're not that good.

And then it was like, I just kept it going.

And someone videotaped it.

Oh, my God.

And it was

so awkward.

Didn't recognize me at all.

Didn't know who I was.

Don't think he ever knew who I was.

I mean, not once.

Chris Bosch isn't going to be watching the show before he comes in.

He didn't know.

He's too big.

I was.

He thought I was.

He thought you were a hair person.

And like, the PAs are like, we really need him on set.

I'm like, well, he's almost done in my department of hair.

And then

basically it just died.

And he never, you never.

Nope.

Well, Chris is probably listening.

Never not once.

No.

Never not once.

Did you even work with him on set that day?

Never saw him again.

Literally never saw him again, ever in my life.

Oh, my God.

I mean, people should know you're a big basketball fan.

Yeah.

I mean,

you're a big WB fan.

Yeah, I love it.

You're a big Liberty fan and many other teams.

What do you like about basketball?

What do you like?

You're good at basketball.

Thank you.

Welcome.

I grew up playing basketball.

I just love the game.

My sister and I,

we just were a ball-in kind of family.

My dad was like coaching our teams.

And I went to an all-girls high school in Delaware called Ursulin Academy.

And we were really known for a basketball team.

Like first, we would, you know, be the best in the state.

Elena Deladon went to my school.

She's like one of the best WNBA players ever.

So I just kind of grew up loving the sport.

And then, yeah, my sister Natalie really introduced me to the W.

And it was kind of before the kind of Caitlin Clark effect, as they call it.

She, well, we, but even before that, before that, we joined a women's basketball league in LA.

And we, and there was a lot of parks people like Allison Becker, was, you know, a lot of comedians.

Shauna Malway Tweep.

Shauna Malway Tweep

was on one of the teams.

And there was a whole movement

around that time, like 10 years ago in LA, where like

just women were playing basketball and like really playing.

Yeah.

And it was so fun.

And then kind of after that, I tore my ACL

on the court.

That's, I mean,

it's pretty ballery.

Yeah.

It's happened twice.

I did it again last year.

I know.

It's very cool.

Thank you.

I know it's the biggest pain in the ass.

Like it's a nightmare to tear your ACL, but like being iced on the court, court, it looks cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, the first time it wasn't so cool because I was actually playing in, I was wearing a wig and I was playing in disguise.

And truly.

You were pretending to be the hair department.

I was, yeah, I was pretending to be Terry on the court.

Okay.

So we got to talk about your other stuff.

There's so much stuff that you've done.

Like, I, you know, I don't even, I don't even know where to start, Plazi.

You're such a good actor.

I, you've done, for people that perhaps don't know, you have done a million gazillion movies.

You've been in White Lotus, you've done Emily the Criminal, one of my favorite performances of yours.

You've done, uh, you've worked with um

what's his name?

You know, the Michael King, famous.

Um, you worked with Michael King, Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro, you've worked with the other Mike Bobby De Niro, you've worked with the other guy, Coppola.

You've worked,

you've been in his movies, yeah, you've been in um

you've been in like incredible, you incredible black bear.

You've been in

I mean I

should note your IMDB.

It's enough.

Is that enough?

Yeah.

It feels like it's not.

It just scratched the surface, Plause.

So I guess my question to you is,

and it is a genuine question.

Hold on.

Agatha.

Down, down, down the road.

Down my witch.

Road.

I mean, a lot of people think that you were playing yourself in Parks and Rec, but is it true that you're actually playing yourself in Agatha?

Of course.

Yeah.

That was the closest,

the most blurred the lines have ever gotten for me when I was holding the dagger.

In the woods.

I mean, that was so exciting to watch.

I mean,

that part was bananas.

It was crazy.

And

the...

Response to that show, talk about your hagheads.

Talk about your handheld.

I know

I just I love that shit.

Baby hags.

Sorry.

They're called baby hags, please.

Excuse me, baby hags.

People, I mean, there's something about you that like is just witch

adjacent.

Like you organically have a witch vibe, as you said.

You were called that early on.

Like, what is it about your fascination?

You've written about the Christmas witch.

You've played a witch.

Christmas Witch is your great children's book.

And it's a great book, by the way.

Thank you.

You and Murph.

You know, we have a new book coming out

that just came out on the shelves right now.

Oh, tell us about it.

It's called Luna and the Witch.

Throw a Halloween party.

It's a Halloween party.

Yes.

What do you love about, what is it about that witch?

Your production company is called Evil Hag.

What is it about witches?

And you.

I, you know, it's like, I can't pinpoint exactly where that

seeped in, but I will say I grew, I think where I grew up has a there's a witchy vibe in the woods of delaware first of all it's an old state the first state in fact um and so i think i kind of grew up kind of always i don't know feeling witchy in the woods but also i think that there's um blood a bloodline thing happening you know in my family with the women in my family i think wait say again like i think i

like I have ancestral, like, witch

witches in my life.

Like, well, I mean, you really, your family feels like a matriarchy.

Like, you have sisters and really strong women in your family.

And it feels like that's been, that feeling has been passed on.

Definitely, on both sides, too.

On both sides, right?

On your dad's side, too.

And I have like Basque blood.

And

I found out about this years ago when I went to visit.

I went to visit like the area where supposedly supposedly some of my family's from, and there's this town called Zugarimerdi, which is on the border of France and Spain and northern Spain in the Basque region.

And it's apparently where

all thousands of witches would like convene in this in these caves, which I went to visit.

And

like the, you know, we talk about Salem witch trials, like, that was like 200 witches.

What?

You love that shit?

Boston.

Well, what that was

it's funny that you bring up the salem rich witch trials why because we talked to margaret qually today about

yes who is so nice i know i love her i know and she loves you i know we have a really sweet little connection there and we got to talk about and you know it's my favorite part of this in many ways is to hear is to talk well behind someone's back and she was saying which you know i know firsthand because of the love and support I feel from you and

our history together.

But

she was talking about how, like,

you are a real girls' girl.

You are, like, you know, you really support women.

You love women.

You take good care of them.

You feel supported and loved by them.

And you surround yourself with really strong, interesting women who

you learn from and teach to all the time.

But her question was: what were the Salem Witch trials like?

What a bitch.

honestly they were fun alexis they were fun alexis alexis they were fun they were fun they were hilarious like everyone was freaking out and i was just like you guys are like so stupid like but i definitely can see you back in the day being uh on

i would love it what do you think that was the best part about playing a witch on agatha the best part for me was just like cackling because i had this one scene like this one part at the end where like and i don't even know

why, but it was, I think, cackling.

There's something about cackling, I swear, that is, like, really therapeutic.

Well, it's probably somatic, like, you've it's it's like screaming, yeah, but it's like you, you think, like, why are witches cackling?

Where does that come from?

I feel like it's must be some old-timey way that women were like working out their rage.

And because I'm not very tapped into that, my rage and whatever.

But, like,

when I really let loose and am able to like cackle or whatever, like, it, it's, I don't know, it's just, it feels good for me.

And I really took that and ran with it.

And, like, the scene in Agatha where I'm like sitting, I'm like sitting on top of the house and like the, and I'm on a wire because I'm like flying down there, and she's down on the ground going, like, ew, you know,

and like screaming at me.

And I was just like,

and I was cackling like crazy, but I went really crazy with it.

And it felt good.

It felt good.

It felt really good to just be like, just let loose.

Speaking of Margaret Qualey, movie Honey Don't.

Honey, Don't.

You're in It With Her.

Yeah.

And who directed it?

And how did you get?

And how did you tell us about it?

Mr.

Ethan Cohen directed it

of the Cohen Brothers.

And

Ethan wrote it with his wife, Trish, Trisha Cook.

And

how did I get involved in it?

Like, how do you pick?

Why do you, I mean, I find you're, the way you choose parts really interesting.

How do you choose what you're going to do next?

I mean, I think it's just, it's a, I mean, a lot of the things that I do, I feel like, are somewhat self-generated because I've produced like five movies and, you know, I read scripts and, you know, I've done, I like that approach.

You've developed things from the ground up.

Yeah.

Like, I mean, I did that really.

That's what I've done a couple of times.

But then, you know, as an actor, you also get offers sometimes.

Yeah.

You know?

know, but I think people think a lot of times that like actors just like sit there and wait and are sifting through like 10 offers or whatever.

But it's never like that.

It's always kind of

different than that.

But this one, I don't know how I choose.

I think a lot of it's

kind of has to do with like

what I feel like.

kind of diving into energetically or like character wise because i tend to really like

go there and so I don't,

there are certain things that I just, even if the script's like really good or, or if it's like, you got to work with, you know, Glenn Powell or whatever, it's like, I don't.

You got to work with Glenn.

I know, but I don't, I don't want to.

I can't.

You can.

No.

He's, he's, he's neighbors with Jack McBreer.

I don't.

All right, fine, I'll do it.

I'm definitely interested in like doing the opposite of what I just did.

Or like, you know,

the honey don't

thing to me, honestly, was like mind-blowing that a Cohen brother wanted to work with me.

You know, I was like, oh my God.

Like, everybody wants to work with thee, honey.

Tarantino, where the fuck are you?

Oh, Tarantino.

Do your earmuffs.

Close your earmuffs.

Tarantino, I'll do anything.

I'll do anything.

Absolutely.

Anything you want.

Quentin.

I am her manager.

Tarantino is her manager.

She will not do anything.

Green, green.

The feet are off the table.

Tarantino, it's Aubrey.

Guess what?

I'll do anything you want.

It's extra for the feet, huh?

Naked in heels, Tarantino.

I'm going to get

an immediate call from Quentin Tarantino.

Good.

Can't wait.

I can't wait for it.

Whatever is the

scary ass shit he's going to make with me.

Put me through again.

Don't care.

You think I didn't care before?

How about now?

Definitely don't care about anything.

No, Quentin, no.

We're going to.

Okay, but so you.

What?

But this brings me.

But you, but what do you like?

Because you have worked with a lot of different directors.

you work and you've and do you want to direct right?

Yeah.

I mean you have directed already but you want to do that more?

Yeah, I mean I've never directed a movie.

Well you've directed TV.

No, I haven't.

You haven't?

Well I direct I've

I directed yes.

Yeah.

I directed a an episode of a Showtime show called Cinematos

that Jeff

created.

Yeah.

And it was a quarantine

during the pandemic and it was a really, really cool show and I loved my episode.

Unfortunately, I don't think you can watch it anymore.

I don't think it exists.

It just went away.

Showtime literally just erased it.

It's kind of weird about some TV.

Like we were making jokes about how to find parks, but some TV just is like, it's gone away.

It just goes away.

It's weird.

I mean, I guess when I was growing up, that is what happened with TV.

You couldn't watch it again.

Yeah, that's true.

It just went away.

But that's true.

But now it feels weird that it goes away.

Yeah.

But yeah, no, I haven't directed.

I want to direct a movie, but like, I'm.

I'm skewed.

Girl.

I know, but you know what it is?

It's like I, I want to, I know, but I, it's like I want, I'm, I'm a little bit like, um,

I'm being too precious about it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know.

Yeah, you just got to just do it.

But I want to have something to say.

I have something I want to say.

Something to say.

I want to shut up.

I mean, I want to say

what?

Sorry.

What?

Sorry, I interrupted.

No, what do you want to say?

I literally don't know.

What do you want to say?

I don't want to say anything.

I want to do a movie where I say nothing.

How about that?

It's called Seinfeld the Movie.

Okay.

And so, what would be like, as we wrap up,

back to movies, what are the movies that like give you, what are the movies like, what are your comfort movies?

You know,

speaking of comfort, just a reminder that Frankie's been asleep under your chair the entire time.

Best dog ever.

Best dog ever.

Dakota Johnson was on, and she brought her dog.

She thinks she's better than me.

No, sorry.

No.

It's not a competition.

Okay.

Frankie wins best dog for sure.

Yeah, she does.

Okay, but comfort movies.

Comfort movies.

You've got mail.

Love you've got mail.

Speaking of Tarantino on his top 10 favorite movies of all time.

Yeah, but guess what?

If he made it, what?

It'd be like, you got mail, you open up the envelope, there's a finger in it.

No, he would never.

Oh, yeah.

He would never.

Okay.

You've got mail.

I love that movie.

That's like a real comfort movie.

When Harry met Sally.

I think like a lot of like 90s, like rom-coms are really comfort movies for me.

Like I grew up like

on all those movies, like Sleepless in Seattle and just like.

I watched two on a plane recently, Parenthood and Moonstruck.

Those are like, oh my God, Moonstruck is...

Parenthood's so good, too.

Love Moonstruck.

Moonstruck.

Okay.

And then I ask everybody this, like,

and this is, maybe, you know, this is like, takes on more import for you this year probably than other times.

But like, what do you, what makes you actually laugh?

What do you do when you really want to like deeply laugh?

Where do you go?

Do you watch something?

Do you read something?

Do you go to friends?

Do you

like?

I mean, there's certain

I would say there's just certain people that make me laugh.

I don't laugh a lot when I watch things.

It's like a question i've asked i've asked a lot of people because to me it's like it's it's basically like how do you

how do you stay um happy above the line laughing

how do you stay on the cliff and not in the gorge

hmm may i tell you what i've observed laughing at i do feel like

i feel like the

the way in which your

friends

know you and and you know them, like the way you like create family

and the way that you feel like safe around

people and the way that you can like laugh at yourself, you have a very good sense of humor about yourself.

Yeah.

Like you are, you're able to get teased really hard and you love to tease.

Yeah, I like that.

I like teasing.

I do too.

And that's a, it's, I think it's a love language.

I don't know if it's East Coast.

I don't know if it's whatever, but like to me, like the more comfortable I am with someone, the more I want to tease them and want to be teased by them.

Yeah, I would say, yeah, like my closest friends, like

Bombardo, you know, my all, my, a group of my women friends that we were in an all-girl improv group, but then we turned into a coven, legit.

Um, we call ourselves Bombardo.

Like, we do, we have like a text chain and we, we do like Zooms and we do like trips, and those girls make me laugh really, really hard.

Also, we all known each other for so long.

It's a my oldest,

that's the best thing that makes me laugh is just funny, all my funny friends.

Well, Plazi,

we did it.

We did.

We really did it.

Okay.

Great job.

Thank you for doing this.

It means a lot that you came.

I think I got the part.

You got the part.

You got the part of yourself.

Okay.

Finally, after all these years.

We did an audition for.

the part of you in the podcast and congratulations.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Aubrey Plaza, aka April Ludgate,

my daughter, sister, wife, friend, and we all wanted you to be here, and we're really glad you are.

And that was so fun and funny and always a good hang with you.

So thank you for coming.

And today's Polar Plunge, I just want to talk and just remind people of the beautiful films that Aubrey Plaza and her late husband, Jeff Baina, made together.

They include Little Hours, Life After Beth,

Spin Me Round.

They're all really great,

beautiful, funny films that you should check out and check out Jeff Bain's work.

He's

an incredible writer and director,

and his work is really special.

And it leads me to say that, you know, if

someone you know or you yourself is struggling emotionally or thinking about suicide, you can call the National Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline at 988.

If you're outside of the U.S., visit spotify.com/slash resources for information and resources.

You've been listening to Good Hang.

The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman, and me, Amy Poehler.

The show is produced by The Ringer and Paperkite.

For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spilane, Kaya McMullen, and Aalaya Zanares.

For Paperkite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss Berman.

Original music by Amy Miles.