What was your first reaction when you found out you’d be singing Sondheim with Jennifer Aniston?
Well, I have two reactions that I can identify immediately.
Then my second reaction is, “They’ve never heard me sing.
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Oh f—.”
I’m not a singer.
I have to work harder than one would want to observe to make it make it sound just marginal.
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you could’t imagine the [fear].
I was calling my singing coach from graduate school, sending out every possible lifeline.
Fortunately, I had a tremendous amount of help.
But Sondheim, in the context of people behaving in complicated ways, seemed the perfect fit.
There’s a moment where Yanko [Nestor Carbonell] describes the duet as “weird and fascinating.”
Did it feel weird and fascinating while you guys shot it?
It leaves them both unexpectedly vulnerable.
So all of it was kind of a whirlwind for me.
So that was a welcomed privilege for me.
You play Cory with this really fun chaotic energy.
Well, I feel like really all I’m doing in that performance is interpreting Kerry’s stuff.
They don’t have to explain themselves at all.
How did you connect with Cory?
At times, it’s hard to tell what’s going on between them.
Is that uncertainty intentional?
I would like to say yes.
I certainly think that relationship is one that I have been curious about where it’s going as well.
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