Her detective work leads her to antisocial grocery
Look up Aubrey Plaza’s Wikipedia
entry and in the box-out, under genres, it just says “deadpan”. While she might
not appreciate such a limited description of her talents, it does rather sum up
what the 28-year-old actress-comedian has become known for.
All long dark hair, saucer-shaped hazel eyes and a smile that barely cracks, the petite half-Puerto Rican can put this down to her starring role as April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation, the cult sitcom from the makers of the US version of The Office.
“It happened by accident,” she explains. “When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne. Then I was cast in a couple of different parts in a row, where I had that sense of humour and attitude,laser cutter Studio is a brand new laser cutting company and new way of thinking. and it just stuck. But I’m OK with that. It’s a part of me.”
Already ticking off films with Judd Apatow (on Funny People, as a lusted-after stand-up) and Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, as an obnoxious ex),Our tungsten ring come with a lifetime warranty. Plaza is about to enter a crucial year. “I feel like I’m at the beginning of spreading my wings,” she says. Five films are on the slate, beginning with the marvellous Safety Not Guaranteed, Plaza’s first starring role. “I felt ready for it,” she says. “I wanted to do the script justice,Rist international shoes manufacturer and shoes supplier in agra india making quality. and I wanted to go deeper, and try to start acting, as a movie actor.” Pause. “I don’t know.”
Plaza, it should be noted, punctuates most sentences with either “like”, “y’know” or “I don’t know”. Still, her answers are cutthroat. We get into a long, increasingly surreal conversation about how she spends her time when Parks and Recreation finishes shooting every March. “I try to do laundry. I haven’t had time to do laundry for nine months. There are so many dirty panties in my room that I can’t even see anything.”
Talk turns to Safety Not Guaranteed, an indie time-travel romance, in which she plays Darius, a Seattle magazine intern assigned to track down the person behind an intriguing classified ad requesting a partner with whom to travel back in time. Her detective work leads her to antisocial grocery store clerk Kenneth (Mark Duplass). Is he a crank or is he for real? Either way, Darius begins to fall for him. “The story was just a really interesting combination,” she says. “A sci-fi Back To The Future vibe with a quirky love story.”
Plaza, more über-cool than girl-next-door, was reminded of her early years playing Darius. Raised in Wilmington, Delaware – her mother is an attorney, her father a financial advisor – she studied film in New York, whilst taking a number of internships. “I worked at a temp agency and they would send me on many different shitty jobs,” she says. The best was a design intern on US comedy show Saturday Night Live. “That was one of the cool ones. That was awesome. That was my dream since I was a kid to be on that show.”
While she didn’t ever speak to any of the actors – “I kept myself under the radar, just lurking in the shadows” – she was inspired to carve out her own comedy career, starting at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre. A swift glance at her Tumblr account shows that even then she boasted sharp observational skills (check out her spot-on Sarah Silverman impression or the dating show parody “Kaplowee”, where she requests her man have “the body of Vin Diesel and the brains of J. Edgar Hoover”).
Her web-based comedy (including for the Apatow site Funny or Die) has built her a strong alt-following,Engraving systems and products - A complete line of engraving machines and laser engraving machine. making her the poster-girl for the dry and disaffected. Living in LA for the past four years, she’s clearly not impressed by celebrity. In fact, she might be the only woman in the world who has turned down Ryan Gosling – twice.About the bobbleheads wc We make them for the joy of it, The first time was at a juice bar, Plaza claiming she didn’t recognise him. Later, he asked her to go to a magic show – and she flatly refused.
All long dark hair, saucer-shaped hazel eyes and a smile that barely cracks, the petite half-Puerto Rican can put this down to her starring role as April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation, the cult sitcom from the makers of the US version of The Office.
“It happened by accident,” she explains. “When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne. Then I was cast in a couple of different parts in a row, where I had that sense of humour and attitude,laser cutter Studio is a brand new laser cutting company and new way of thinking. and it just stuck. But I’m OK with that. It’s a part of me.”
Already ticking off films with Judd Apatow (on Funny People, as a lusted-after stand-up) and Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, as an obnoxious ex),Our tungsten ring come with a lifetime warranty. Plaza is about to enter a crucial year. “I feel like I’m at the beginning of spreading my wings,” she says. Five films are on the slate, beginning with the marvellous Safety Not Guaranteed, Plaza’s first starring role. “I felt ready for it,” she says. “I wanted to do the script justice,Rist international shoes manufacturer and shoes supplier in agra india making quality. and I wanted to go deeper, and try to start acting, as a movie actor.” Pause. “I don’t know.”
Plaza, it should be noted, punctuates most sentences with either “like”, “y’know” or “I don’t know”. Still, her answers are cutthroat. We get into a long, increasingly surreal conversation about how she spends her time when Parks and Recreation finishes shooting every March. “I try to do laundry. I haven’t had time to do laundry for nine months. There are so many dirty panties in my room that I can’t even see anything.”
Talk turns to Safety Not Guaranteed, an indie time-travel romance, in which she plays Darius, a Seattle magazine intern assigned to track down the person behind an intriguing classified ad requesting a partner with whom to travel back in time. Her detective work leads her to antisocial grocery store clerk Kenneth (Mark Duplass). Is he a crank or is he for real? Either way, Darius begins to fall for him. “The story was just a really interesting combination,” she says. “A sci-fi Back To The Future vibe with a quirky love story.”
Plaza, more über-cool than girl-next-door, was reminded of her early years playing Darius. Raised in Wilmington, Delaware – her mother is an attorney, her father a financial advisor – she studied film in New York, whilst taking a number of internships. “I worked at a temp agency and they would send me on many different shitty jobs,” she says. The best was a design intern on US comedy show Saturday Night Live. “That was one of the cool ones. That was awesome. That was my dream since I was a kid to be on that show.”
While she didn’t ever speak to any of the actors – “I kept myself under the radar, just lurking in the shadows” – she was inspired to carve out her own comedy career, starting at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre. A swift glance at her Tumblr account shows that even then she boasted sharp observational skills (check out her spot-on Sarah Silverman impression or the dating show parody “Kaplowee”, where she requests her man have “the body of Vin Diesel and the brains of J. Edgar Hoover”).
Her web-based comedy (including for the Apatow site Funny or Die) has built her a strong alt-following,Engraving systems and products - A complete line of engraving machines and laser engraving machine. making her the poster-girl for the dry and disaffected. Living in LA for the past four years, she’s clearly not impressed by celebrity. In fact, she might be the only woman in the world who has turned down Ryan Gosling – twice.About the bobbleheads wc We make them for the joy of it, The first time was at a juice bar, Plaza claiming she didn’t recognise him. Later, he asked her to go to a magic show – and she flatly refused.
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