- And that's why you vote for Deutch.
- (laughing) Yes, a vote for Deutch is a vote
for the puppies.
That's nice. - Gosh, that was good.
- Yeah, I'll be your co-running mate.
- Thanks.
- Yeah (laughing).
- Hi, I'm Gina.
I'm here with Zooey Duetch from
"The Politician", and these are her Netflix IX.
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So you play Infinity,
which is obviously Payton's running mate,
but a large portion of your time on-screen
is with Jessica Lange.
Icon.
She is.
Talk to me about Ms. Lange,
what was it like working with her?
- A dream.
- Don't eat that fast.
You're going to yack it all up like a baby bird.
Spit it out.
Oh, Christ, look at that.
Jesus.
- I love her so much and it was such a rewarding
and special experience working with her,
and I was just doing my best to be as much
of a sponge as I could and soak up the Langeness.
- On Instagram, you have a highlight,
which I love, called...
No I'm not going to bring out any weird receipts (laughs)
I won't go back to 2008, no.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- No, kidding, kidding. - That wasn't me.
(laughing).
- You've got a highlight called stuff I'm bad at.
- Oh, yeah.
- Which-- - There's a lot of that,
but what's on that one.
- Which shows you been terrible at charades.
- Oh, god, that was humiliating.
- What's something else that you're famously bad at?
- Everything, everything - That's... Stop that.
- And also any like "Two in the bush one in the bag."
Give me one... what is it like...
- Like can't...
You can take a horse to water but you can't make a drink.
Stuff like that? - Yeah, I would say like,
"You can take a horse to get milk
"but it won't drink it."
And people would be like, "That's not a thing."
- I'm interested to know,
who's the most fascinating character that you have played?
- I think in the last year I got to play Infinity
and then right after that I played...
It's a character named Madison in Zombieland 2,
and jumping from those two is really fascinating for me.
That was...
There couldn't be...
They couldn't be more polar opposite.
Infinity is diminutive and ill and isolated.
A lot of nice people heard about my chemo
and they paid for me to go to Disneyland with my Nana
and we got to skip all of the lines and it was so much fun.
(laughing)
Best day ever.
And then I played Madison who's essentially
a amalgamation of or a version of Paris Hilton in 2009.
With big long fake nails and long blonde hair and
juice good tracks.
So getting to get those two very distinct different voices
and looks and perspectives that was
so so rewarding and fun.
- I have a question to ask you about
your parents and Ed Sheeran's music video, "Perfect."
- I thought you said my parents in Ed Sheeran's video.
I was like, "Did my parents... (laughing)
- They're here (laughing).
- I was like, "My parents in an Ed Sheeran's music video?"
- Ed Sheeran also is here.
That video has over two billion views on YouTube but--
- Does it?
- Yes.
- Wow. - Yes.
Can you tell me how that happened?
How did you--
- I don't know, he was like, "Zoey, come to Austria
"And film this music video."
And I said, "Sure Ed, that's do it."
And it was filmed in this little ski town in Austria
called Hintertux because he wanted to make it
a Christmas video,
even though there was a lyric that says,
"Barefoot in the grass."
I'm like this doesn't...
Like barefoot in the grass and we're just
frolicking through the snowy woods.
I was just like, "Okay, whatever."
I've no explanation other than he was like,
"Will you come do this music video in Austria?"
I was like, "Yeah, okay sure."
- "The Politician" is a show that has a lot of heart
but it's also hilarious.
- We could make some money on this?
- Absolutely.
Oh, absolutely.
- Oh, well hot damn.
- Were there an scenes where you kept laughing
or had to stop yourself from laughing?
- There's a part of a scene
that didn't make it into the show
because Ben and I could not get our shit together
in any way, shape or form and it was a very very...
It was a three word improv ad-lib
that Jessica Lange did about the ingredients in her dish,
which was a bologna cup.
- It smells great.
- Well?
- Bologna cups.
Yay.
Velveeta cheese and bologna.
That was all she said and the way that she said it
with all of her Langeness
had Ben and I crying of laughter.
The whole crew crying with laughter.
- "The Politician" centers obviously around rival
political campaigns.
If you were running for student body president,
what obscure thing would you promise people?
- First period would be puppy period,
and you would spend it with all slew of cute ass dogs.
(laughing)
- That's actually really...
You'd win.
That's so nice.
- Yeah, right?
Everyday would start with a puppy.
- Do you have a secret talent?
- I have one and I show it in every interview
so it's so boring but I'm so bad at so many things
and I'm really only good at one skill that is
useless.
And it's making myself look like I have a facelift.
- I have seen this
but I really want to see it again, please.
- Okay.
(laughing)
- What's a job that you should you could do if money
and skill were no option?
I told you there were answers that short.
- Neuroscientist.
Just because that sounds smart.
- That sounds really cool, yeah.
- And my job sounds the opposite of smart.
- That's not true.
- No.
What about you, what would you do?
I told you you'd get excentral.
- Yeah, I know, you're right.
No you're right.
You know what.
I weirdly wanted to be a synchronized swimmer
when I was younger.
- That's so cool.
- Yeah.
- Have you ever done it?
- Well, I used to swim and then I was just like lazy
and I was like, "Forget it."
You know, it's like when you are trying
to be like a pro at stuff.
That's long.
So I left it but I still kind of want to do that.
- But they have like groups of...
You can go and do synchronized swimmer like things.
- Yeah, that's true.
- There's one in LA, I know for sure.
I was looking into it with a friend of mine.
- Oh, okay.
- Because I'd thought it'd be a weird, fun hobby to have.
- There you go.
So if you were forced to do an ice breaker
in a room full of new people and you're ought to tell
the group one interesting fact about yourself,
what fact would you choose?
- I hate revolving doors
and scallops and everything else is pretty tolerable
or even good and exciting.
- Why don't you like revolving doors?
- They're going to get you.
- Yeah, they actually are, though.
Like they really are. - They're going to get you.
They're going to get you.
That's what they do, they get you.
- Okay, Zoey thank you so much for speaking with me.
- Thank you.
- Have a great time.
I love "The Politician" by the way.
You're fantastic in it.
- Thank you.
- And these were your Netflix IX.
- Netflix IX.