"I Like To Think That I’m Such A Good Actor That People Just Thought That Was Literally Me": Aubrey Plaza Looked Back On Her Role As April In "Parks And Rec","I prefer to be a character. I mean, that’s literally what I am doing.”
“I Like To Think That I’m Such A Good Actor That People Just Thought That Was Literally Me”: Aubrey Plaza Looked Back On Her Role As April In “Parks And Rec”
Aubrey Plaza discussed her “deadpan” persona in a new interview with Vanity Fair.
Axelle / FilmMagic“You can see all the colors of my psychological state on display in any of these interviews,” she continued. “It’s a struggle for me every time. It’s a struggle to not quote-unquote ‘give people what they want,’ which is — I don’t even know what they want — and try to have fun for myself without coming off like an asshole.”
Nbc / Todd Owyoung / NBC via Getty Images“I think it all just stems from — I’m scared. I prefer to be a character. I mean, that’s literally what I am doing.”
Axelle / FilmMagicAubrey was also asked about an LA Times piece about her SAG Awards bit (which she cowrote) called, “In Praise of Jenna Ortega, Aubrey Plaza and Moody, Deadpan Latinas.” In response, she said, “I loved that. That shit is important to me, because that’s my whole thing.”
Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images“Even with April Ludgate, it was like, come on. Sofia Vergara is not the only Latina personality. There’s other ones! A lot of the characters I play, even with White Lotus — it’s important to normalize that there’s all kinds of different Latina people. I mean, all my Puerto Rican cousins are, like, morbid. Morbid shit is going on over there!”
Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic for HBOYou can read Aubrey’s Vanity Fair cover story here.
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