When filmmaker Lawrence Michael Levine gave the script for “Black Bear” to Aubrey Plaza, it included one hell of a direction in its final act: the leading lady “breaks down and gives the best performance that anyone has ever seen ever.” No pressure.“I had this moment before we started shooting, where I just felt like, ‘This is going to be really hard and fucked up,’” Plaza said during a recent interview with IndieWire.
“But there was something in me that felt like I needed to dive off the deep end.
If the movie had been about anything else, I don’t know if I would have been able to put myself through that.
It was too much for me to pass up.
I just had to do it.”While she’s best known for charmingly sardonic roles like April Ludgate in NBC’s beloved series “Parks and Recreation
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