Who is your favorite movie or TV couple?
There's Ross and Rachel if I'm going for my kid self. We had so many terrible influences in the ’90s. It's so funny to think that as kids were looking at Ross and Rachel like, “What a healthy couple!” So toxic, so toxic.
Were they on a break?
No, they weren't on a break! Like no, you just don't, like, fuck someone that night. It's insane. Again, Ross is one of the most toxic characters, like, of all time, of all time.
What’s the weirdest thing you do in your alone time?
I don't know. What's weird? Work out in my underwear? But that's not weird…pick my nose? That's not weird either. Let's eradicate the nose-pick stigma. I think the world is literally just an overpopulation of humans walking around just pretending like they don't pick their noses.
You stop at a convenience store on the way to a party. What are you picking up?
What's funny about this one is this is actually something that I do often and as a joke. I'll go get party hats and little plastic sunglasses or those little blower things and bring them to a wrap party to make people more comfortable. It's like a little disguise and then people are more likely to, like, dance and it becomes a fun thing.
Then I do this thing with one of my friends every year—I don't know when this started, but I go to a gas station on the way to her birthday party and just get her a bunch of gifts and pretend I didn't just get them from a gas station. But they're things like a flyswatter and then they become like characters at the party. Everyone's got the flyswatter at some point and it's fun.
Do you believe in astrology?
The thing that I think is cool about astrology is how it can influence you to think or consider something about yourself that maybe you otherwise wouldn't have or take a chance that you otherwise wouldn't. I've fully made decisions just because someone at a party did my chart and put this thought in my head. And then, since that seed was planted, I was like, “Oh, I'll take this path.” So that part of it is actually pretty cool.
I don't love people going, “What's your sign?” And I say Virgo, and they're like, “Oh…” You don't fucking know me! [Laughs.]
You can watch Not Okay on Hulu right now. Emily Tannenbaum is an entertainment editor, critic, and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter @ectannenbaum.
