Turns out, promoting a comedy is as fun as it looks.
“What’s nice about this, and I haven’t had so many experiences of this before, is that it’s a really fun show and I’m playing someone playful,” Ella Hunt says, sitting barefoot and crossed-legged on a couch. “I don’t have some kind of moral to hammer home or anything, so it feels lighter than I’m used to.”
Hunt stars in “Not Suitable for Work,” a new Hulu comedy from Mindy Kaling that follows two groups of roommates, all trying to figure it out in their first jobs in New York City. Hunt plays AJ, a Bostonian who is trying to make it in the world of finance.
The 28-year-old was shooting a film in Canada when she first heard about the show. She’d been on several back-to-back night shoots and describes reading the initial pitch as a kind of “fever dream.” She didn’t have much time to prepare before sending in a tape, which she thinks worked to her advantage.
“I was laissez faire about it in a way that I rarely am. And I think that that translated well,” she says. “I just was in a kind of don’t give a f–k, playful
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