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- Hi, welcome to the AV Club.

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I'm Saloni.

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And today I'm so excited to
be talking to Alison Brie.

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Welcome.
- Thank you.

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- Sometimes, personally,

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I feel like it's tough to
co-write anything with anyone.

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And this is the first time

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you're doing it with your husband.

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- Mm hmm.
- What was that like?

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Not just working together,

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but then also shutting those laptops,

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putting those scripts
away and then realizing,

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"Oh, we're still together."

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- You're right, that I
think the only issue,

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if it even was an issue, was
that during the pandemic,

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it was, there was no
escape from one another,

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which we didn't mind.

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But it was hard to shut off
the work part of our brains

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once we started writing the script.

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And I tried to keep hours with him.

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I'd be like, and at 5:00
PM, we shut the laptops.

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Now I'm gonna make dinner,
we'll open a bottle of wine.

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And then he would just creep
that other computer back open

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and keep me writing some days.

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But a lot of the time, it kind of worked.

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- Well, the other good part
about this movie, personally,

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for me was that you
reunite with Danny Pudi.

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And you guys are of course
coming back together

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for the "Community" movie.

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Is there anything you can share
about when we might see it

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or when you guys are filming it?

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Because I know you mentioned

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that you haven't gotten the script yet.

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- I keep hearing rumors

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that we're gonna shoot it this summer.

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Everybody says this summer.
But I don't know exactly when.

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We're all kind of trying
to compare schedules and -

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- Sure.

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- Figure out when everybody can do it.

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Mostly, I'm, it's too, it's
double, on the one hand,

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mostly I'm just excited to
hang out with everybody again.

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- Yeah.

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- 'Cause I love those guys.

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And just thinking about
being back in the study room,

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back at Greendale together,

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all of us making our different jokes

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and our different
character voices and modes

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and that chemistry between
everybody is really special.

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- Is there one of your characters

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that you feel like you
connect with the most?

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Because, like I was telling
you before we started this,

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I connect with Diane Nguyen

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from BoJack Horseman on a very deep level.

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And I'm wondering if you
had any of your characters

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that you feel that way about?

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- I think Ruth from "Glow", probably.

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Yeah, I know. It's so sad.

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But it was so great while it lasted.

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And I love that Ruth is an underdog.

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I can totally relate to putting
myself in that category.

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But also, she's a fighter.
She's really resourceful.

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Almost to a fault.

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She's just a lot of,

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I think the longer that
we did the show too,

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they almost started to
write the role for me

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and for everybody on the show.

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And parts of my optimism maybe
seeped into the character.

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(Alison laughs)