Lake Bell on playing ‘the straight man’ to Tim Robinson’s lunacy in ‘The Chair Company’

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00:00it is really hard to keep a straight face there was one scene particularly i mean just even simple

00:05scenes where we're both in bed and he's gotta either check his phone or he's fussing about

00:11something and um the director andy de young will will give tim opportunity to do different levels

00:21of tim and ron i should say so different levels of ron's inner um torment so when you know when we go

00:38full torment or full level 10 that that's usually enough that's the time where i have to

00:45take a deep breath and like engage my core think about something real sad and then um allow myself

00:54to kind of be present as you know it's like you have to really suspend your um commitment to the

01:06the hilarity that's happening and kind of like out of body compartmentalize stay stay in the zone of

01:14of um sobriety in his wackiness you know

01:19you