Maya Erskine

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Maya Erskine stars in the Amazon Prime series Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's an action thriller in which she stars opposite Donald Glover. It's a dark, high stakes, prestige, serialized adaptation of the 2005 film of the same name. Maya joins us to talk about the series and how she prepared for the role. We also get into her time in college and how she'd make skits with her longtime friend and collaborator Anna Konkle. Plus, she shares some stories with us about her time in arts high school.

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0:40.0	Look, I'm going to be honest with you.
0:42.0	It's the kind of pitch that you might hear about on one of those TV shows that make fun of show business.
0:51.0	Mya Erskine, who is my guest this week, stars alongside co-creator Donald Glover in a dark high-stakes prestige serialized adaptation of Mr and Mrs. Smith. Yes, Mr and Mrs Smith, the 2005 blockbuster where Brad Pitt and
1:08.0	Angelina Jolie play married contract killers who end up having to kill each other.
1:15.0	Are you out of your mind?
1:15.8	What is wrong with you?
1:16.8	You're what's wrong with me.
1:18.0	It's a broken Vegas.
1:19.0	No, that's better.
1:20.0	No, that's much better.
1:21.0	Stop it.
1:22.0	Stop it's a fun movie. It's also goofy and maybe a little corny. I think that's fair.
1:31.0	Mr and Mrs. Smith, the TV show though, is not that.
1:36.0	In fact, the showrunners and stars, well, none of them really watched that original movie?
1:42.0	They took the premise and they ran with it.
1:44.8	What kind of people would sign up for that kind of job in the first place?
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