Gillian Jacobs and Danny Pudi interviews at the AV Club
Excerpt. Read whole interview here.
The A.V. Club: This is your first weekly TV show. What’s been the biggest change for you in that respect?
Gillian Jacobs: I definitely feel like I’ve learned a lot about comedy working on this show. I’d never really done comedy before Community, so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I’ve learned a lot. I don’t know if I feel more confident, but it feels more familiar, and that’s really nice.
Anything else, a play or a movie, you go in and you know the arc already. You know, point A to point B. And on this, it’s like a surprise to us every week when we go to the table read. Dan [Harmon, creator] never sat me down and told me his master plan for season one. So it was as much a surprise to me as it was to the audience, and watching Britta going from the girl on the pedestal to the one who’s getting ridiculed and made fun of was really fun and unexpected for me.
And then as a person… [Laughs.] It’s been a huge change. I moved from New York to L.A. for this show, and I have consistent employment for the first time in my life, and I get to drive onto a lot every day and have the security guard wave at me. It’s been incredible.
Excerpt. Read whole interview here.
The A.V. Club: Were you really into dance, or was it just something you did as part of your major?
Danny Pudi: I actually started out with dance. My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old. It was actually Polish dancing, as a kid, folk dancing, which was great. Especially when you’re the brown kid, they make you go in front all the time and do the solos. [Speaks rapidly in Polish.] “…You’re lazy!” [The instructor] was always yelling at me for being lazy. He’s like, “5, 6, 7, 8, go.” And he had a huge mustache. But he taught me discipline. And he was always yelling at me, “Come on, come on. Why aren’t you smiling?” And then he’d be yelling at me and telling me to smile. So it’s a great way to teach me to enjoy dance. [Laughs.]
Then I danced for eight to 10 years after that, and I danced again all through college; tap dance, jazz, musical theater. But I’ve always loved to dance. It’s kind of the first way, in many ways, that I could get into character, physically, in my body.
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