Justine Lupe of 'Nobody Wants This'

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Justine Lupe of Netflix's 'Nobody Wants This' talk with Audacy and KROQ's Ally Johnson about the making of season 2.

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00:00Congratulations on season two.

00:05I am so excited that we get more from Morgan

00:08and a deeper dive into her character story

00:11and her through line and a new relationship and all that.

00:14I feel like we all know a Morgan.

00:17Totally.

00:18And I was just curious as far as like the scenes,

00:21they seem so natural.

00:23Are you improvising a lot of the time

00:25or are you kind of sticking to a script

00:27or is it a little bit of both and then it kind of hybridizes?

00:29Yeah, you know, the writing is so strong.

00:31It's really, really fun and good.

00:33And so I'm someone who's like very comfortable

00:36just sticking with the words and like I believe in writing

00:40and I believe in writers and care very much

00:42about honoring what they wrote.

00:44But this is like, it gives room for a lot of play.

00:48It's so conversational.

00:49Yeah.

00:50We're given free license to kind of like add things in

00:53and play around with it and naturally things

00:57do kind of just come out as we're going.

01:00So it's a hybrid like you would say,

01:01but it definitely starts with the words.

01:05What was something unexpected or not scripted

01:07that kind of happened in season two?

01:09Can you think of anything?

01:10I mean, there's so much eating that Morgan does

01:13and that was just all me.

01:14I don't know.

01:15I was just like truly excited to eat all the things

01:17that they had around on set.

01:18Kristen and Adam were talking about how the great lunches,

01:21like what great lunches you guys had.

01:23Totally.

01:24There's a lot of like food, like there's donuts

01:26and there was like, they brought in like my favorite Thai food

01:28at one point.

01:29And I was just like, well, I'll be eating through this scene.

01:31Like I just don't know how not.

01:33One thing I love about the show is that it really celebrates LA.

01:36Yeah.

01:37There's so many great locations that you guys get to go to.

01:39And I would imagine that there's places that you didn't even know about

01:43that you learned from just from the show, right?

01:45You know, I'm very east side.

01:47Yeah.

01:48So this whole thing was kind of magically familiar.

01:50Like they shoot in Los Feliz and they shoot in Silver Lake.

01:53So I was like, oh, my haunts, like this is great.

01:56But there were some kind of fun locations like out where Noah's parents live,

02:00which is like very like accurate to, you know,

02:03where these kind of like generational family homes are.

02:06And I didn't know them at all because I never go west side.

02:10And I was like, oh, this is cool.

02:11This is really neat.

02:12And the synagogue out in Malibu is really cool.

02:14Beautiful.

02:15I'm with you.

02:16I just think that LA is such a colorful landscape

02:19with so many different kinds of things going on.

02:21And it's part of why I really love living here.

02:24So.

02:25And you don't see as many shows filmed here anymore.

02:27I know.

02:28So it's just so great to see a show so in LA.

02:30100%.

02:31And it's just also, you know, I care very much about our crew.

02:35And so to bring work back to LA.

02:37These like professionals who moved here because they're incredible at their jobs.

02:41And they wanted to live in Hollywood, the epicenter of film.

02:44And then, you know, there's not just that much going on here.

02:47You're like, I have to go to Canada now.

02:48Yeah.

02:49All right.

02:50Vancouver.

02:51Here I come.

02:52The relationships ran out.

02:53Obviously, there are many relationships that are covered in this show in general.

02:56But the relationship for me between Morgan and Bina.

02:59Oh.

03:00Was.

03:01Really?

03:02Yeah, that scene in the bathroom.

03:03Oh, yay.

03:04I just wanted to, do you agree that the best conversations always happen in a women's bathroom?

03:09I've had some really good talks in the girls around.

03:11Right?

03:12Even with people you don't know.

03:13I know.

03:14I know.

03:15I mean, that one was specifically sweet, the two of them.

03:18Kind of.

03:19There's also something kind of like haunting about bathrooms.

03:21Like the overhead lighting and like the like stall doors and everything.

03:25It's like a little bit of like a fun house, like spooky mansion.

03:28But it also like, you get vulnerable and.

03:31You say things in a bathroom I don't think you would say otherwise.

03:33Totally.

03:34Especially to another woman.

03:35Yeah, they're like the safe place of the restaurant a lot of the time.

03:37Yeah.

03:38To the bathroom.

03:39And Joanne and Morgan really do flee to the bathroom.

03:41Yeah.

03:42Quite often on this show.

03:43I mean, which is real.

03:44For a lot of women.

03:45I understand the feeling of being like, hey, you want to go to the bathroom?

03:47Yeah.

03:48It's kind of like a girls, like a girls ritual.

03:51Like, hey, hey, hey, we're here.

03:52So I really understand.

03:53But I liked that scene too on the page and I like, you know, it's a vulnerable scene

03:58and there's sweetness that comes out.

03:59It was so unexpected for me that I was like, oh my God, I love them together.

04:02Yeah.

04:03And there's something about seeing Bina in that position too, where I like was so endeared

04:07to her and, you know, she's so strong-willed and she's so opinionated that sometimes you

04:13don't see the vulnerability in these characters.

04:16So having these two characters who are normally quite masked in their vulnerability just being

04:22open with each other was really sweet to me.

04:26And I just wanted to end on a personal question because I went to acting school and you went

04:30to acting school.

04:31I don't really use a whole lot from my acting school.

04:34Where did you go?

04:35Where did you go to school?

04:36I went to SUNY Purchase.

04:37You're like, I'm done with that.

04:38I mean, well, I went and I was using it until I transitioned into radio.

04:42And now, aside from the occasional, like, you know, impression from someone who lives

04:46in England.

04:47You know, I'm sure it helped with the public speaking of it all.

04:50It did.

04:51But I wanted to know with your background, what is the number one thing that you use from

04:56acting school that you use all the time in your career?

04:59Ooh.

05:00I mean, listening.

05:03I think that was, like, a huge thing that they hammered home is, like, being available

05:08to what's actually happening and not having a preexisting idea of what's going to happen,

05:13but, like, truly trying to just listen to whoever's across from you.

05:17That was a big one for me.

05:18Right.

05:19And I think also just, like, being brave enough to make bold choices about what your character

05:24is after.

05:25And then, like, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but at least you made a choice.

05:29Yeah.

05:30I know.

05:31That was something I kind of had to learn, too, was not playing it safe.

05:33Totally.

05:34And people can reign it in.

05:35I've definitely had that happen.

05:36There was, like, a time on Succession where, like, don't be afraid to go big.

05:39And I went big.

05:40And they were like, and you can bring it back.

05:42I'm going to bring it back.

05:43I was like, oh, right, you're British, so your idea of big is, like, a little bit less

05:46big than what I'm throwing out there.

05:48But I was like, okay.

05:49I gave them something, and then they can reel it in, and it's fine.

05:52Yeah.

05:53Well, cool.

05:54Well, thank you so much for talking to me.

05:55I appreciate it.

05:57And congrats on the premiere tonight.

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