- I got stuck in an elevator recently.
- Oh, how was that?
- Better than I expected. (laughing)
I handled it really well.
I was shocked.
I, like, took off my coat.
I was like, "I'm a little hot."
Then I was like, "OK, take little breaths."
Need oxygen. - Yeah.
- I was like, "I'm gonna call my friend,
"make sure she comes to the lobby,
make sure that they're doing something."
They weren't.
Called the fire department, said, "Hey guys.
Need some help in here."
They said, "What's up?"
I said, "I'm stuck in an elevator, but I'm not stuck.
"I'm actually going from the ground to the seventh floor,
to the ground to the seventh floor."
- Oh, it was moving.
Were you alone?
- Very. (laughing)
- It's Zoey Deutch, everybody. - Hello.
- The star and producer of 'Buffaloed.'
It's good to see you, bud.
- It's so good to see you.
- It's your Valentine's gift to all of us.
Thank you. - You're so welcome.
I just wanted to give people an hour and change
of me yelling at them in movie form.
- On behalf of the world, thank you.
My guess is, you read a script and you see the first scene
is you screaming profanities and shooting a gun in the air
and you're like, "This is my jam.
This is for me."
- A hundred percent.
You get me. (Josh laughing)
Also, when I read it, I was shooting 'Set It Up.'
So, I feel like I was extra attracted to it,
'cause it was, like,
the antithesis of my character in 'Set It Up,'
who is super bubbly and positive and eager to please,
and this character is full of rage,
and blind ambition, and greed
and I was just like, "Uh, this looks fun
and super different from what I'm doing."
- It's kind of like a blue-collar, like,
'Wolf of Wall Street' to me. - Yeah.
- That's, like, what it struck me as.
It's the story of debt collectors, in Buffalo, of course.
Talk to me about like the world, like, of this.
Why is it Buffalo-specific?
- I found it to be, when I read it,
a very funny yet poignant story about a young woman
desperate and obsessed with making enough money
to get out of her blue-collar existence,
and she kind of finds her calling
in an ethically-debatable industry,
the one that really destroyed her chances
of becoming anybody or somebody to begin with,
which is debt collecting. - Right.
- Prior to this experience, I didn't know that
the debt collecting capital is Buffalo.
This is, I like to say, a heightened,
more theatrical experience of that world.
- Sure. - But the writer did grow up in Buffalo.
And I went to Buffalo many times,
and I actually really loved the city.
I bought most of the character's costumes
in the city of Buffalo at thrift stores
and illegally recorded people
speaking in Buffalo accents. - Well done.
So, if you think I'm doing an exaggerated accent,
you're wrong.
- (laughs) It's on tape.
So, Peg is, my sense is, Peg stands,
in your young career,
in the upper echelon of characters you've played.
There's something richly rewarding about her in particular
that you haven't played before, yes?
- Yeah, yeah, I think so.
I mean, she's like a, to me, a real antihero, a real weirdo.
But, I guess the last year,
I played really weird characters.
There's like this character Peg,
and then there was Infinity in 'The Politician,'
and then there was Madison in 'Zombieland.'
- Right, is there any chance you think
we'll ever see Madison again?
(laughs)
There was talk!
I mean, like, Ruben's talked about, like,
"Oh, it'd be cool to do some kind of spin-off."
Has there been any real talk since the movie came out?
- I don't know.
I don't know if there's been any.
- Not involving you yet. - I don't know if— you know!
- Yeah, I know. - Actors are the last ones
to hear anything.
- Anything!
They're like, "Just don't tell the actors
and it'll, everything is going to be okay."
But, I would. I'm really, really, really hoping
I get to work with Ruben again.
I've been talking to him about that.
- I saw that you were gallivanting around
the Vanity Fair party.
Did the thing, had the fun.
- Oh, that party is actually very, very fun.
- That's the one? - Yeah.
- Who did you run into?
It's always that random, eclectic thing.
It's like Jerry from 'Cheer' and Brad Pitt in the same room.
(laughing) - They were a foot away
from each other at that party. - That's what I'm saying.
You run into anybody that you hadn't met before?
Someone you geeked-out on,
or was it the same, usual suspects?
- I do this thing every time I see,
which is only three times,
but every time I see Jeff Bezos.
He looks like a lot of people that I know
- [Josh] Right.
- And I go up to him, and I go like, "Hi!"
and I give him a big (beep) hug,
and then everyone's like,
"Whoa, you're brave.
Like, you just hugged Jeff Bezos."
And I'm like "(beep), I thought that was my agent!"
(laughing) Like, I do it.
- [Josh] Right.
- I was presenting at an award show
and while they were showing the clips of the stuff,
I was like, he was sitting next to Brad Pitt,
and I was like (waves)
And everyone was like, the entire room was like,
"Why is she waving to Jeff Bezos?"
(laughs)
So, that is something I do,
but he's been very wonderful in terms of, you know,
having no idea who the (beep) I am,
but being, like, kind.
(laughs) - So, that was, your big moment of the night,
was having another awkward exchange with Jeff Bezos?
(laughs) - No, it's never awkward.
It's actually always very pleasant.
It's the moment after that's awkward
that people are like, "Huh?"
and I'm like, "Hmm."
- [Josh] Are we gonna see you and Glen Powell
again on screen together?
- [Zoey] Yeah, you will.
- We're not gonna see the sequel to 'Set It Up,'
but we are gonna see you guys collaborate in another film?
- Yeah. - That's happening.
- Yeah, this summer.
- What can you tell me about it?
Is it the same genre, same kind of a thing?
- Same genre. - Okay.
Same writer, Katie Silberman. - Great.
- Same Glen Powell. (laughs)
Same Zoey Deutch.
Uh, how is that?
- Wow, is this like, is it a Marvel movie?
This is shrouded in secrecy.
- It's not a Marvel.
- I'd say they don't let you read the scripts.
(laughing) You're just gonna show up.
- No, no, no, no, no.
I just don’t know what, I don’t know what—
I don't know what I should or shouldn't say.
- It will utilize each of your unique talents
and the chemistry we saw on display last go 'round.
- He said it. (laughs)
Yeah, it will.
No, I'm very, very, very excited about it.
We want it to be absolutely perfect before we start,
but I wish we could have started yesterday
'cause I'm really excited to get to work with my friends.
- The broader question, though, is are you happy with
how things have turned out?
I mean, you're bouncing around between a lot of,
you do these, like, cool smaller projects,
whether it's 'Flower' or 'Buffaloed,'
where you get to play these strong, interesting characters.
You're also in things like 'Zombieland,'
you're in 'The Politician.'
It feels like you've had a very eclectic career
for someone, you know,
still starting out, relatively speaking.
- Yeah, I think, I do genuinely feel very lucky
and, like, I'm having fun.
I mean, especially the last year, I've just been having fun
with these parts and kind of going big and crazy
and out there with them, which is very freeing.
I am kind of excited by the idea of doing something
a little bit more still, a little bit more contained,
a little bit more, like, quiet,
'cause it has been all (screaming).
(laughs)
- Anything we need to secret into the universe?
You're looking for a still role.
You don't wanna talk,
you don't wanna do anything.
It's like she wants to play someone in a coma.
- I'm looking for a silent film to star in.
(laughing)
If you know of any. - 'The Artist 2,' yeah.
Is there anything, though, generally speaking,
that people aren't thinking of you for that you wish?
- I wanna play Spider-Woman.
I wanna do that.
- Is that such a big ask, guys?
- I wanna do that,
Tom Rothman. - Is that a thing they're looking for?
Are they looking for a Spider-Woman?
- I wanna play Spider-Woman. - A spider lady?
- Uh, I wanna play Snow White.
I wanna play...
I wanna do a musical.
Those are the opposite of silent and still.
- Fair enough. - I just said a musical
and a princess and an action movie.
- Have you had more musical auditions
or superhero auditions?
- Musical.
- Yeah? - Yeah, I think, also,
after I sung in 'The Politician,'
then that's been a pretty much, yeah.
That's pretty much exclusively
what I've been auditioning for
for the last couple months,
which is great 'cause I love to sing
and I would love to find something to do.
And I really do wanna do an action movie.
I wanna, (beep), I don't know what I want, apparently
'cause I just said I wanna do something
still and quiet. - All over the place.
- I am all over the place, though.
- It's okay, you want it all.
- I want it all. - Just give it all to her.
- Give it all to me.