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What are you filming in London?
It’s a movie called I Give It a Year. It’s a StudioCanal movie with Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall and Simon Baker. It’s a rom-com.

What’s your character?
I play a character who’s a very real girl. She’s kind of like me, if I’m a real girl. I don’t know. She’s very insecure and she’s American. She works for a nonprofit; she’s been gone in Africa for a long time and she kind of comes back into a married man’s life.

Is it more serious than other rom-coms that you’ve done?
Yeah, yeah.

So it’s more of a rom-dram?
[Laughs.] Ha-ha! Rom-dram!

 

Before you go back to London to shoot, tell me a little bit about I Give it a Year.
It’s directed by Dan Mazer, who executive produced this movie, The Dictator, and he’s been with Sasha [Baron Cohen] for a long time. I love that it’s very British in that all of the dialogue is very quick, and witty, and fun to say, and it’s all very dialogue-based humor. There’s nobody slipping and falling on a f*cking bra or whatever. So that’s a great sort of change of pace. It’s very actor-y. It’s been a ... Read more »