How Aubrey Plaza Thrives as the Odd Woman Out

Aubrey Plaza has played a Marvel mutant, a social mediaobsessed cyber stalker, an underground credit card scammer, and Aaron Burr. Understandably, shes a bit tired of all these characters getting painted with the same brush. Soon I m going to get into the world of prosthetics where I change my nose and my hair so people can just completely forget that it s me, she says. I m always surprised that when I do something new, there s always that one person who says, there she goes, doing the Aubrey Plaza thing I only have my own instrument to work with. Anyway, I sound bitter, but I m not. But I am always surprised that people use deadpan to describe some things that I ve done. It just feels a little reductive. But that s my journey. On this episode of In the Envelope: The Actors Podcast, Plaza takes us even deeper into that journey, including her creative process for Emily the Criminal and The White Lotus, as well as what to expect