‘It Was Just 24/7 Depression’: 'Role Play’s' David Oyelowo And Kaley Cuoco Recalls The Roles That Had Major Impacts On Them

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In the Prime Video's Role Play, an action comedy starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo, the two play a married couple who find themselves in a very precarious situation. This is due to some professional entanglements on the part of Cuoco’s character. While the production demanded quite a bit of the two stars, they’ve definitely played challenging roles before. So when I spoke to them ahead of the film’s release, I couldn’t help but ask about the gigs that have had the biggest impacts on them.   It goes without saying that both of the stars are tried and tested performers at this point in their careers and have produced excellent work. That’s one of the reasons I was so excited to speak to them on behalf of CinemaBlend. The two didn’t seem to have too much trouble choosing the roles that tested them the most. David Oyelowo pointed to his acclaimed turn as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s historical drama, Selma. The British performer explained to me just why he found the process of playing the civil rights leader so “intense.”

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00:00One of the things about this movie is that it focuses on Emma kind of, you know,

00:03holding on to this role that she has as an assassin and kind of having a hard time letting it go.

00:08For you both as actors, what's a time in your career, maybe with a role that you became so

00:12entrenched in it that like maybe not lost in it, but just had a hard time letting it go

00:16by the time you were finished? What's a role like that?

00:20It's a good question.

00:21Yeah, it's a good question. I mean, playing Dr. King in Salma was pretty intense. I stayed in

00:27character for the three months we were shooting. You know, that's probably one of the ones that,

00:33it's not that I didn't let it go, but you can just feel you're shedding something. You know,

00:40I have four kids and a bunch of dogs and, you know, a family life that means that,

00:46you know, they're not trying to tolerate Dr. King hanging around longer than is welcome.

00:55So you got to shed that pretty quickly. But yeah, that was probably one that happened with.

01:01I don't find it. I'm very, you know, I've done so much lighthearted comedy stuff,

01:06so I never get too, I'm not that type of actor where I get too stuck in it. I usually can

01:11separate. I do feel like probably the weirdest year of TV that was for me was season two of

01:17Flight Attendant because I had so much stuff going on in my personal life. So it was all like,

01:21it took, it wasn't that I brought it home with me, but it definitely, that character was so

01:26messed up and I personally felt so messed up. So I felt like it was just 24 seven depression

01:32in a way. Like it was like, God, this girl, oh my goodness. I'm sad. She's sad. Like, so that

01:37felt a little like all encompassing. So when I came out of that and I kind of find myself again,

01:42but that was definitely one that was like a big sigh of relief, you know, to like put that down.

01:51Yeah.

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