We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
I’m at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I’m playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It’s exciting and scary.
For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it’s always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
I’m incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they’re both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There’s a problem with that. It’s only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.
I’m running on adrenalin when we’re shooting. It’s non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.
I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it’s about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that’s what I like to watch on TV.
Film has always been where my heart is.
As artists, you always want to push yourself. There’s always new territory.
How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
I fell in love with ‘Star Trek’ after J. J. Abrams’s movie. I’m so into that.
I grew up in Canada, man – we all had rinks in our backyards because we’d ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
I’m so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn’t ever feel like work.
I haven’t really done a lot of comedy. It’s something that terrifies me.
I like ‘Futurama.’ That’s kind of the only thing that’s my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
I’m fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it’s not exclusive to the psychology of a character.
I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
I’m a huge ‘Futurama’ fan, so that’s my closest sci-fi tendency.
It’s always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies – character-driven stuff.