“It was very different from anything I’ve ever done”: Aubrey Plaza’s new film, ‘Emily the Criminal,’ is yet another reason to take the actor best known for her humor seriously.
is the latest reason to take the actor best known for her sly humor seriously. As the action thriller’s titular character—an aspiring artist living in Los Angeles, who’s saddled with $70,000 in student-loan debt and an aggravated-assault conviction that prevents her from landing a decent-paying job—Plaza is riveting.
“It was very different from anything I’ve ever done,” Plaza says about the “unapologetic” and timely story of a woman “so beaten down by this broken capitalistic system that she’s lost.” An emboldened Emily taps into her simmering rage and develops a steeliness—mace and a taser help—to take on increasingly complicated criminal endeavors, realizing that she’s got an affinity for the work.
“The story is about Emily coming into herself and getting her power back, and kind of becoming a more fully realized person,” Plaza tells—whose own student-loan debt and food-delivery job helped inspire the story—thought of the reinvigorated woman as a millennial“What’s unique about this movie is that when it starts, she’s already well on her way to getting to her tipping point,” Plaza says. “We get to see these kind of micro decisions that [she makes] lead her on this other path.
This film marks Plaza’s latest effort to show her range beyond the side-eye sarcasm that’s been the hallmark of her career since her breakout role as’s blasé intern, April Ludgate. She’s moved from raunchy characters , and unpredictable talk-show appearances (in a 2019 bit with
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