“When I meet people for the first time, they can’t believe I’m not going to be mean. They’ll do a thing where they’ll be kind of mean to me, and I can tell they think that that’s what I’m like”
The first thing Aubrey Plaza says when she pulls up in the parking lot of the Vermont Canyon tennis courts is “I don’t really know how to play tennis. Do you?” The first thing I do in response is to laugh in her face, because this must be a joke. It’s a hot, nosebleed-dry Los Angeles day; there’s no cloud cover or trees to protect us from the sun, and the asphalt courts are heating up like a kiln.
But she would like people to stop assuming she’s going to do that “Aubrey Plaza thing” in life and especially onscreen. Because if you’ve been paying attention, you know she hasn’t been doing it for some time. And if you haven’t, then maybe her newest slate of roles — which range from off-the-wall to unhinged to totally crazy — will blow up the notion once and for all.
She interrupts herself to stop a waitress and ask for hot sauce. The waitress brings us one serving — “Oh, no, we need two,” Plaza says, and the waitress sets off again. “She hates me now,” Plaza tells me under her breath, then encourages me to dump the entire little ramekin on my bowl. “I was looking for someone who could be fun and energetic and also untrustworthy,” says Legion creator Noah Hawley. “I needed an actor who could morph into something a little less human, in a way, and I couldn’t think of an actor who was as unpredictable and hard to read as Aubrey.”
There’s always been something a little bit unstable pulsing under Plaza’s performances, no matter the role. This summer, she plays the nun Fernanda in The Little Hours, a raunchy, improvisational retelling of the first story of the third day of The Decameron. Her longtime boyfriend, Jeff Baena, wrote and directed; they filmed in Tuscany with all her comedy friends , and Plaza basically got to lose her mind onscreen for a few weeks.
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