I think it’s a story of recovery and reconnection.
And it’s a messy, hopefully funny, relatable show that I think ultimately is quite hopeful.
I think that Sam felt really familiar to me.
I’m a daughter.
I love mother-daughter stories on TV.
My relationship with my mother is the most special thing in my life.
I used a lot of things from my own experience, but I also really like invention and collaboration.
I don’t like to play myself.
I really like acting and playing different people.
So I did have a go at make her feel like her own special little entity.
And it definitely shows.
Ally:I don’t think I’ve ever played a role as quite like Carol.
That’s where Carol was coming from.
And then the dynamic I have with Sofia was shaping the Carol-Sam relationship.
So it was all coming out of all that messy stuff.
And lucky for me, she’s also a really rad person on top of being an incredible actress.
And we just got on really well right away.
And it was just really fun.
It was really fun for us.
Sofia:You just hope that the writing, I think, takes you there.
And so on this show, it really did.
I think that these two women felt really specific and detailed.
And I felt at least that you could see who they were on the page.
This is such a weird analogy, but I really love F1.
So we can only do so much if it’s not there.
And we just got lucky.
Jenny is an amazing writer, obviously.
And so then we had the fun job of bringing that to life.
So I wanted to ask you how that was to portray?
And how you portrayed it?
But also how that might affect her arc throughout the season?
It’s always fun to be able to … we all have our rage, right.
So it’s always fun when it can be there.
Sofia:It’s the best.
Now listen, Carol didn’t get any less angry during the course of the season.
It’s just that things just got a little bit less tense with Sam at the end.
But nothing but traps all over the place.
We’ll just see how long that lasts, the detente.
Sofia Black-D’Elia compares Single Drunk Female and The Mick
That’s amazing.
Were there any scenes for either of you that were especially difficult to film?
Sofia:The roller skating for me was brutal.
And I fell really hard on my butt and had to see the medic.
So that was definitely the hardest for me.
Did you have any, Ally?
Ally:No, I mean, I had not any, technically.
There was only one day that was technically difficult and that was … Sofia, remember the hot dog?
It was roastingly hot that day.
Sofia:Oh my gosh.
It was so hot that day.
I’ve really
Ally:What?
Ally:Just technically because of the heat and the smoke.
It was a difficult day but
That definitely sounds like it.
I wanted to ask you, Sofia, [about] your previous work on “The Mick.”
Ally:Oh, it helped me enormously.
That job was really life-changing for me for a lot of reasons.
I think she’s easily one of the funniest people that’s ever been on television.
And as a physical comedian especially, she’s such a gifted actor.
And I just learned so much from watching her and being around her.
And it was the first time I did comedy.
So it gave me the confidence to go more in that direction.
It’s like I viewed Sabrina as a true sociopath.
I think she was capable of murder.
Sam is not like that at all.
So they’re on opposite ends of the spectrum to me.
And I actually called them a lot during the making of this show for support and guidance and reassurance.
I don’t think I ever would’ve been able to do this job without them.
