I'm going to begin actually a question for for both of you, because I'm thinking,
I mean, obviously,
Stath Lets Flats and Broad City above such popular shows.
But is it quite nice for both of you to be in a comedy series
where you're not so involved in the behind the scenes? Is it quite fun.
Playing a character from a page Is that less of a
pressurized environment to be in sometimes.
Absolutely.
I think that's it's it's great
to kind of create variance in your career and like challenge wise.
I mean, I think that, yes, it's very, very high pressure
writing and starring in the show for me anyway.
And I think that there is
there's excitement to be had just from like being able to access
someone else's brain and what their brain to access than that of Chris [Miller] and
Phil [Lord] and Chris together.
And that whole team, it was a real, real privilege, just the same.
Like, I think the pressure kind of fills a different bucket
where I was like probably more nervous about acting in this show than I was
on Broad City because there's just it's just spread across so many roles.
But I think it's definitely lessened,
you know, not wearing so many hats and also like
it was such a privilege to be able
to learn on a new set like from such
masterful creators to see how
they run a set of such a great opportunity
that was taking up a lot of the like I was filling my cup.
Also, just like the watching and learning part of it too.
Yeah, a lot.
Because I mean, it is, as you mentioned, such a brilliant array of comedic actors
that are involved in it, and I was reading that improvization was encouraged.
Does it ever get kind of
competitive at all when you put a load of comedically inclined performers in a room
and that are encouraged to be to improvise because I guess it was trying
to find that that zinger?
I think competitive is like one way to say it, but it was like super playful.
We were definitely like vibing off each other.
And I mean, you could definitely see it as competitive, but
that was
really only Ike competitive, everybody else.
Yeah, yeah.
When I was determined to win and when he did, we did.
It was so playful.
We were like following around like maniacs like it was.
It did get manic at a point because it was just so, so
fun and fun to play at that level, because everybody,
I mean, play on screen at that level and off screen.
Totally.
And I actually think that there's like I think that competitive is a kind of it's
an interesting word in these environments
because I think it is kind of a it's kind of a positive thing.
I suppose there are negative connotations that but I think everyone was just
so jacked from being around so many funny people the whole time
that it was like exciting to go toe to toe with people in scenes and
and like, work out how your rhythms meet theirs and stuff in it.
And it just, yeah, it felt like explosive at times.
It was great.
And I meant
competitive in in a friendly way, but not so sure.
Also, I mean, obviously,
you know, you put on an American accent with any particular words.
You struggle with any phrases you loved saying in American
and Ilana, how's your how's your English accent?
Oh, dude, I'm I. I
really, you know, I think that there are strains.
There's a strange association for British actors
with doing an American accent because it's so... in the U.K.
it's so highly judged.
It's like you doing an American accent is effectively
you saying, I'm a cool dude, which I don't think I am.
And I think that,
you know what?
It's all that that side of it is all a blur.
I suppose the the toughest thing was if a line got changed at the last minute,
I'd have to really recalibrate and actually think about how like
a certain sentence is said.
And it's also like you're surrounded by American people.
So you want to be you want to be doing something right, I guess.
But everyone was very supportive. And yes.
Ilana, how was your English accent?
Like you tell
me, like sometimes there's like a sort of I do sort of like that like a Founding
Fathers British accent to that, you know,
they're bringing they're bringing the
they're putting the society together.
I mean, really, I think of it as the British
coming here to America and looking around and seeing what what they're going to do.
That's amazing.
I'm really into it. Oh, thank you so much.
That's one that really sunk into sort of like more of like a royal
whose display is generally...
I mean, it's yeah, it's great to
We'll get you a roel in in the next series of the Crown, I think.
Oh, love it. Anyway,
thank you so much for your time today, guys, and best luck with the series.
Thanks so much. Thank you.