The actress also reveals her most challenging scene and who has Chidi’s calendar.
Warning: This story contains plot details from Whenever Youre Ready, Thursdays series finale ofThe Good Place.
While the core characters received fitting happy endings, there was a bittersweetfinalityto the proceedings.
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(Sorry, but even paradise wasnt eternal.)
This week, several characters began figuratively shouting Portals!
And then she passed through the gate of branches, dissipating into floating particles in the universe.
That what it’s crucial that you earn is the acceptance of the complex internal decision to let go.
It was so beautiful how they made everybody mush in the Good Place because its true.
Theres one line that really sums it up.
A vacation is only so fun because it has an ending.
If everything were bliss,wouldeveryone be happy?
I dont think so.
Part of the drive and the passion is why its the journey, not the destination.
And I wasveryhappy with the tough-love ending that happened.
And the capper was that he agreed to stay, although both of them knew it wasnt cosmically right.
How many buckets of tears did you all shed while filming?
What did you love about that sequence?Enough buckets to make that Buddhist wave.
[Laughter] That paragraph has been ringing in my head since I heard it in August.
But her impulses still brought her to beg him for selfish reasons, which is okay.
Im glad she came to her senses so quickly.
And Im also glad that she came to her senses by reading the works of other people.
Speaking of Paris, you filmed there and in Athens.
It was so much fun to go with everyone.
We went for seven days.
We shot all over in some of those beautiful locations.
It was breathtaking watching the sunrise come up.
There were so many stray cats.
I didnt even know what to do with myself.
But it wasincredibly, beautifully humbling to feel so insignificant.
I loved that feeling.
There were so many people who tread on those stones before me.
It made me feel oddly like a part of a team.
Nick Offerman also made a cameo.
[The credits listed Offerman as playing himself.]
Maya [Rudolph] and Nick dont just come back and do jobs for anyone.
One particle falls to Earth, prompting a man to bring that letter to its rightful owner: Michael.
Then you are allowed to end it.
Those are the tiny voices inside your head that say, Dont throw that persons mail away.
Just walk to their door.
It takes two seconds and it probably will make their day.
I would love to believe that thats what happens.
Thats such a beautiful way of thinking about it.
Because we are all one, right?Were all part of each other.
Whether we want to believe it or not.
Theres something that connects us all.
You didnt just walk through the door, you became something that helped someone else.
And the major lesson here is you canbesomething that helps someone else your entire life if you choose to.
Who has the Chidi calendar?
I feel like it should be you.No, you know what?
Ill give you one more appropriate try.
But Im on Team Will Take Your Shirt Off, and so is his girlfriend.
Thats where the calendar should live.
Your most memorable moment sipping margaritas with DArcy in the Redwoods?That she could not stop crying.
We were both crying a lot, but she was definitely crying more than me.
And when someone cries more than me, Im a little taken aback.
Because normally I have that title.
But DArcy, this ending really hit her hard.
And Janet the robot cried quite a bit in the finale, which I love so much.
I am taking some time to look inward, to be present for my family.
I will keep up the friendships with these people and the crew.
I know where all the camera guys have landed and on what shows.
I know where the grips have landed.
These friendships will be forever.
So, fair to say that your points went up while making this show?I certainly hope so.
But look, Im averycompetitive game player, so dont you worry Ill get them much, much higher.
For much more from creator Mike Schur on four seasons ofThe Good Place,head over here.
