![]() (Samberg’s repertoire reaches its outer limit with the two-note melody- duh-duhduhduh-duhduhduh-duhduhduh-duh-from Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.”) There are three harps, also mostly used by Newsom: two for mom, one toddler-sized, a gift from Newsom’s preferred harpmaker. And Samberg makes no secret of the fact that he’s plenty happy for this to be the recurring day he’s stuck in, and for the people he’s reliving it with to be his wife, the harpist and songwriter Joanna Newsom, and their young daughter. So I guess putting something out is okay.” What he’s putting out has that newly relevant pandemic layer, its echo of our endlessly repeating days. “I'm going through all the same stuff,” he’d realized, “and at night I want to watch stuff. “You know, the world was kind of fucked up before, and it's still fucked up, and we were doing press before, and making movies,” he says. But Samberg had Palm Springs to promote, as both star and producer, and had brought himself around on the idea. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, his sitcom about an affable band of detectives, had been pulled into the national debate around policing sparked by Floyd’s death, as audiences and networks alike began to rethink the merits of shows about benevolent cops. ![]() “It's weird to be doing press again at all,” he says, “thinking about saying anything about the world other than COVID or the protests and everything, and George Floyd.” This wasn’t an idle gripe. Along the way, they consider the horror-or is it joy?-of eternal cohabitation.įor better or worse, the circumstances of quarantine have led couples everywhere to confront a similar question: what happens to a relationship when every day is the same? Samberg, joyfully boyish at 41 in ballcap and Studio Ghibli tee, opens the first of our two Zoom calls with an admission. Together, and with more than a few Lonely Island-style hijinks, they try to escape their time-loop. New episodes post every Thursday.One of the big questions posed by Palm Springs, Andy Samberg’s new wedding-goes- Groundhog Day romantic comedy, is also a timely thought experiment: If you had to spend the rest of eternity stuck in a single day with a single other person, would that be hell? Or, if you were lucky enough to be stuck there with the right person, might desert-oasis purgatory in fact be a kind of heaven? The film picks up after Samberg’s Nyles has re-lived the same hipstery Palm Springs wedding a million times, and right before he drags Cristin Milioti’s sister of the bride into his infinitely recurring marital nightmare. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or anywhere you download podcasts. ![]() Each week “Awards Circuit” features interviews with top film and TV talent and creatives discussions and debates about awards races and industry headlines and much, much more. Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast, hosted by Clayton Davis, Jenelle Riley, Jazz Tangcay and Michael Schneider (who produces), is your one-stop listen for lively conversations about the best in film and television. She even discusses the text thread she has with her friends on who is going to play Elphaba and Glinda in the movie adaptation of “Wicked.” In the Awards Circuit roundtable, the hosts discuss “Hillbilly Elegy,” HBO Max releasing “Wonder Woman 1984” and the films you should watch over the Thanksgiving holiday. She covers the gamut which includes wanting to play Sally Bowles in “Cabaret” and what is her favorite movie musical. Cristin Milioti and Andy Samberg Ryan PflugerĪlso in the episode, Cristin Milioti discusses starting out in the New York theatre scene, tapping into the vulnerability in Sarah’s character and her favorite musical and dream roles.
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