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Archive for the 'Interviews' Category
Aubrey Plaza & John Patton Ford are interviewed for Emily the Criminal. Directed by John Patton Ford the film stars Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Jonathan Avigdori, Kim Yarbrough. Stefan Pape asks the questions.
Aubrey Plaza and director John Patton Ford on Emily the Criminal, how the film has the sensibility of a tense thriller but is grounded in real social issues of financial deprivation and the stigmatisation of ex-criminals and the highlights and challenges of the shoot alongside Theo Rossi.
“You know Emily’s capable of doing something fucked up,” Aubrey Plaza declares with a mischievous smile. “She’s gone through some shit. But you don’t know what her past is.” Plaza, 38, is enthusing – albeit in her trademark deadpan voice – about Emily the Criminal, a nail-biting thriller that’s a massive departure from her comic […]
The night before Aubrey Plaza and I met up, she went to the premiere of her latest film, Emily the Criminal, at the London film festival, and was surprised to see an old friend in the audience. It was Aziz Ansari, her co-star on the sitcom Parks and Recreation. “I hadn’t seen him in a […]
Aubrey Plaza loves a good witch. Her faves? Everyone from Angelica Huston’s terrifying turn as the Grand High Witch in The Witches to the most classic screen sorceress of all, Margaret Hamilton’s Wicked Witch of the West from the The Wizard of Oz. But she has a more recent witchy pick. “I’m a really big […]
Aubrey Plaza has opened up about “weirding out” Robert De Niro when the pair worked together in 2016’s “Dirty Grandpa.” The actor and producer addressed years of swirling rumors about “being weird” and spoke about her commitment to her films at every stage of the process during a London Film Festival ScreenTalk session hosted by […]
When it was announced that The White Lotus universe would be introducing Aubrey Plaza, fans were naturally excited at the prospect of Plaza’s sarcastic character having a face-off with Jennifer Coolidge‘s Emmy-winning character Tanya. In reality, Plaza says that the character was written for her with her in mind, in only a way that her […]
At 7 a.m. last Friday Morning, Aubrey Plaza was in a leech-filled Canadian lake. 13 hours later, she was onstage at Strong Auditorium in front of hundreds of eager Rochestarians, an improvement according to Plaza. The actress—known for her performances in widely-liked television shows and movies such as Parks and Recreation, Safety Not Guaranteed, and […]
Last week, the Student Programming Board welcomed universal Woman Crush Wednesday Aubrey Plaza as the Yellow Jacket Weekend Performer. And, to put the icing on the cake, Wilson Commons Student Activities made the mistake of asking me if I wanted to interview her in collaboration with WRUR 88.5. Fresh out of an Uber (she’s just […]
In “Emily the Criminal” (now in theaters), Aubrey Plaza plays a hapless, desultory young woman weighed down by student loans like Atlas by the Earth. Because of her police record, Emily can only hold down a food delivery job. Her prospects are grim. When a man named Youcef (Theo Rossi) offers Emily employment as a […]