00:00Before we get into any of the serious questions though, anyone who listened to your appearance on Good Hang with Amy Poehler
00:05knows that you love the fun of making a name.
00:08Now, season two, we've got Dr. Garbanzo Beam.
00:12Sure.
00:13Yumka Fonson.
00:14Right.
00:15Receptionist.
00:16But I want to ask you about the character played by Carrie O'Malley, because I think if you say, I need you to say it out loud.
00:22Okay, if you look at the name, it looks like a series of indecipherable, perhaps Welsh consonants and vowels.
00:31Her name is Megan Chocolat-A-Course.
00:34That's how you pronounce it.
00:36And the reason is at the time we were coming up with the name, the trailer for the movie Wonka had come out.
00:41And in that trailer, Timothee Chalamet, a child says to Timothee Chalamet, what are you doing?
00:47And he says, I'm making chocolate, of course.
00:49What are you doing?
00:50I'm making chocolate, of course.
00:51And so her name is Megan, and we were like, what's your last name?
00:56And I was like, I'm going to write the words chocolate, of course, but in the weirdest possible way so that no one who glances at it could understand that that's what it is, but that's what we will secretly know it.
01:07Yeah.
01:07That is the story of the name.
01:09I have to turn to you and ask you, you know, you've had such an incredible career, 50-plus years in this industry.
01:14Where does getting repeatedly glitter bombed fall on the list of things that you've gotten to do on a camera?
01:19Of your proudest accomplishments.
01:21Hey, what did Wheeler find?
01:23Oh, come on.
01:24You're going to have to clean it up.
01:28Worth it.
01:29Mary, follow up.
01:31You know, how many days did you spend just, like, seeing glitter all around the house?
01:36I think it's still there.
01:37It was, uh, the first one was nasty.
01:42Yeah.
01:42The rest we learned how to, you know, not inhale and not get a mouthful, but I looked forward to it because it was funny.
01:49I thought, now that's funny.
01:51I got towards the end.
01:54I was feeling like Charles.
01:55No, no, no more.
01:56No more takes.
01:57Sorry, that's it.
01:59I think we see it, like, half a dozen times at least.
02:01It happens a lot.
02:02There are so many.
02:03Yeah.
02:03And unfairly by Mary because I had figured it out.
02:07Yeah.
02:08Yeah, the last one.
02:08That wasn't fair.
02:09The last one wasn't.
02:10I'll give you that.
02:11But also so unapologetic.
02:13You're just like, oh, sorry.
02:15Anyway.
02:15I know.
02:16I move on.
02:17I'm going to do it anyway.
02:18You know, Mary, I want to talk about your role in this season because you have one of my favorite lines in this entire season.
02:23People our age have this whole complicated life behind us.
02:26God knows what's ahead.
02:27Let's just be here now.
02:28So beautiful.
02:29I started crying.
02:30Did it hit you as hard as it hit me?
02:32And, you know, when you've been in this industry for so long, how do you stay present when you're filming these kinds of scenes, especially alongside your real-life husband?
02:40We had a little code word before every single take.
02:44And I thought that the editor might have noticed it.
02:48I don't know.
02:49But before every take, we say Sandy.
02:52And Sandy, it was my teacher, Sandy Meisner, and he studied the Meisner method from a student of Sandy's.
03:01And the whole thing that Sandy taught was just a way of being so connected that you're really listening to the other person.
03:09And so I think that was – we took joy in really consciously doing that.
03:16And it kind of put us back, honestly, to our young selves that became actors.
03:21Both went to New York the same year and started studying.
03:25And it was just kind of a fun way of being in touch with our actor-ness, you know?
03:30Mike, I want to ask another question about episode four because we have the moral philosophy of it all.
03:36And, you know, we slip into the Martin Heidegger of why are things – and then we also get into the Kantiness of examining the moral – the categorical imperative.
03:48So in that sense, there's no difference between giving yourself curtain bangs and committing the mass murder of innocent civilians.
03:55How much fun did you have getting back into philosophy and ethics and all of that?
04:00It was fun to give a little hat tip to The Good Place by having a character – Winnie Holtzman plays a character who's a moral philosophy teacher.
04:09And it was fun to just, you know, without spoiling too much stuff, she's running an obfuscation game.
04:19She's trying not to give away too much about what she really thinks.
04:22And if you're a philosophy professor, it's very easy to do that.
04:25You just start talking about really complicated stuff and everybody gets really bored and walks away from you.
04:29So I know that as a fact for my own life.
04:33But it was – we had one direct reference to The Good Place where when she was saying, what are things and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, at one point, Julie, the PI, said, this is why everybody hated that show about moral philosophy professors.
04:48And we decided to cut – I was like, that's too meta.
04:52I don't want to do that.
04:54But it was very fun to just – there was a lot of little hat tips and nods that we put into the show in the last two seasons.
05:00One big honking one.
05:02One one.
05:02Well, we had Darcy show up as a guest professor and stuff.
05:06And it's – I think those things are fun.
05:08It's for anyone who has been following Ted's career or the shows that I've written on.
05:12I always loved that when you saw a little, like, oh, look at that.
05:15I noticed that, you know.
05:16We see Kristen Bell in a less subtle capacity this season.
05:20Park it back off the block.
05:22I can do that.
05:24Yeah.
05:25You're going soft, Mars.
05:28Makes me wonder, is this the bit now?
05:30Are we running with this for season to season?
05:32Is season three going to be, like, at a daycare, we're just going to hear Princess Anna from Frozen in the background?
05:37That's a good one.
05:38Yeah, I – we decided after, you know, she dropped by the set and we had her do a little cameo where she just stood up with her back to camera and walked off.
05:45And then we decided that somehow or another, as long as this show exists, she will make an appearance.
05:53Unpaid.
05:53In every season.
05:54Unpaid, that's right.
05:56But I told her – she doesn't know how she's in the – I told her she's in this season, but she doesn't know how because I didn't tell her we were doing it.
06:02Oh, great.
06:03But when the show drops, she'll get to see how she fits in.
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