Thankfully, he’s got a friend along for the ride.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Take me back to getting involved with this project.
How did it come about, and what jumped out most about the opportunity?
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Everything he makes is really my kind of thing.
And my boyfriend is a good friend of Pete’s, and then so am I.
And so I went in for an audition with him and Judd and it went great.
Did you find that to be true in building this onscreen dynamic?
But I was doing it with my friend and someone who I feel wholeheartedly comfortable with.
That’s what made it really easy.
And we’d bat ideas back and forth with each other.
And obviously the underlying thing that he wants you to do is be funny.
Comedians are used to going onstage and trying stuff out and it doesn’t work.
Actors aren’t used to that.
So it was definitely different but I had so much fun.
How would you describe Kelsey and her relationship with Scott?
And she knows she can’t be the person who saves him he has to save himself.
That felt like a nice flip on the usual dynamic.
Oh god, yeah.
I’m going to use that!
[Laughs] That’s very clever of you.
No, you’re totally right.
And she sees the potential in people.
She’s a good person and she knows that he’s better than that.
I had the best time.
They were like, “No, no, she needs to maintain some integrity.”
I wanted to go like full HAM with it because it’s just so much fun.
If anything it just made me admire him even more than I already did.
He’s really put himself and his heart on the line.
I’m in awe of him about it.
You just literally said that at the beginning of this call!
Piss yourself in laughter not anything else!
But hopefully people will appreciate this film now.
And people just need new s— to watch.
I’m sure everyone has exhausted their Netflix, I know I have.
The King of Staten Islandarrives June 12 on demand.
