Aubrey Plaza, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Elizabeth Olsen, Billy Magnussen, Matt Spicer, and Pom Klementieff of ‘Ingrid Goes West’ on its dark humor and social media glamour.
Yesterday (January 20) was a very busy day for Aubrey who, following the premiere of “The Little Hours”, continued promoting the movie at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival with the entire cast. Later that day, she also attended the premiere of “Ingrid Goes West”, a dark comedy also starring Elizabeth Olsen. Head over to our gallery for high-quality pictures of the entire day:
Public Appearances > 2017 > January 20: Variety Studio At Sundance Presented By Orville Redenbacher’s
Public Appearances > 2017 > January 20: Panel Discussion For ‘Ingrid Goes West’
Public Appearances > 2017 > January 20: ‘Ingrid Goes West’ Premiere
Public Appearances > 2017 > January 20: ‘Ingrid Goes West’ Premiere (After Party)
Yesterday (January 19), Aubrey attended the premiere of ‘The Little Hours’ during the first day of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. High-quality images are now in our gallery:
I have just updated our gallery with over 70 new/old outtakes of Aubrey for various photoshoots & portraits that were missing from our gallery. Some go back to 2010 while others are just from last year – check them out by clicking on the thumbnails below:
Our gallery has been updated with 3 portraits of Aubrey taken during the 2017 Winter TCA by Maarten de Boer. Huge thanks to my friend Neide (www.kj-apa.com) for helping me out with these.
VANITY FAIR – “There are are no rules. It’s complete and utter chaos,” Aubrey Plaza says of FX’s first comic-book series, Legion. “It’s a post-truth comic-book show! The fake news of comic-books shows!” star Dan Stevens chimes in.
Topical Donald Trump jokes aside, the actors are right. In an X-Men spin-off world focusing on David Haller (Stevens)—a potentially schizophrenic, potentially superpowered young man—reality is constantly bent to the breaking point. And on set, creator Noah Hawley (of Emmy Award–winning Fargo fame) ensured that for Stevens, the experience was as disorienting as possible.
Speaking with Vanity Fair at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, Stevens admitted that as his character hopped back and forth between multiple realities, his show-runner kept the actor firmly in the dark: “David has to accept all the realities as possibly real. Noah was really good about forcing to be off balance.” Pointing a finger at co-star Aubrey Plaza, he added, in a mock-accusatory tone, “She knew a lot more than I did about what was going on . . . maybe that’s just my paranoid delusion.”
But Plaza—who demonstrated her ability to lie with deadpan precision throughout this interview—grinned and said, “I knew more than he did, but I would pretend I knew even more. Just to mess with his mind.” And it’s easy to see how Stevens would be thrown. In between anecdotes about shooting Legion, Plaza would casually drop a lie. For example: “The warehouse was like a maze. All our sets were in these weird, dark corners,” she said. As Stevens nodded along at that first part—which was true)—she added, “We had strobe lights on every corner.” At this detail, Stevens cracked up—the interview equivalent of a lie-detector test.
He burst into laughter a short time later as she placidly added that the show once involved a cut subplot in which their characters were obsessed with The Bachelor. “No, no, no,” Stevens said through guffaws. When asked, Plaza said she wasn’t sure how often her good-natured falsehoods make their way into print. “Oh, I don’t know. Probably all the time,” she replied with a grin. “I try not to read any of it.”
But Plaza’s flexible relationship with the truth is far from the only disorienting aspect of Legion, which uses mind-bending camera angles (“It’s upside-down day,” Hawley recalls announcing to the cast on set) and a reality firmly unmoored from our own. Stevens calls the show’s look a “fake nostalgia for a 60s/70s aesthetic” that constantly gets disrupted by modern touches, like an iPad.
“I didn’t realize until I had my first wardrobe fitting,” Plaza said of the unusual look of the show. “This is what I’m wearing? Why is that? When does this take place?”
But for all the mind-bending unreality of the show, Stevens revealed that most of the special effects—including a show-stopping scene in David’s kitchen—were done, surprisingly without the benefit of C.G.I. “They blew those drawers,” he said. “They packed them with everything. You watch closely, and there are Pringles and playing cards flying through the air—”
“That was real?” Plaza interjected. “I thought that was fake.” Looks like this time, Plaza was the one in the dark.
DEADLINE – TBS has opted not to go forward with Nightmare Time, its comedy horror anthology pilot from Parks and Recreation alum Aubrey Plaza.
Written by Plaza, Darcy Fowler, Kieran Valla, and Seth Kirschner, Nightmare Time was set in Aubrey Plaza’s Nightmare Clinic, where celebrity guests check in to overcome recurring nightmares. Every episode was to feature two insane nightmares, inspired by the horrors of modern society and uses tropes and touchstones of the horror genre to guide audiences through its absurd universe.
Plaza, who is a series regular on FX’s X-Men-themed upcoming drama series Legion, guest starred in the pilot and executive produced the project.
While Nightmare Time was a more experimental and out-there concept that TBS took a chance on, the network remains high on the anthology comedy genre. TBS has Greg Garcia’s upcoming vacation home anthology The Guest Book.
Entertainment Weekly – Writer-director and Sundance favorite Jeff Baena (Life After Beth, Joshy) returns to Park City this year with the comedy The Little Hours, whose high caliber cast includes Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Micucci, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke, Nick Offerman, and Adam Pally.
Brie, Plaza, and Micucci star as medieval nuns who lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord (Offerman). Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry.
You can see exclusive images from The Little Hours, which premieres at Sundance on Jan. 19, below.
Following the “Legion” Panel, Aubrey graced the 2017 Winter TCA Tour – FX Starwalk blue carpet in Pasadena, California, on Thursday (January 12). High-quality pictures are now in our gallery:
Following yesterday’s FOX All-Star Party, Aubrey and the rest of the “Legion” cast attended FX’s “Legion” Panel during the 2017 Winter TCA Tour (Day 8) this afternoon in Pasadena, California. Be sure to check out our gallery for high-quality pictures of the panel! And don’t forget, the show premieres Wednesday, Feb. 8 on FX.