Aubrey Plaza first rose to fame playing cynical intern April Ludgate on NBC’s popular sitcom parks and Recreation With Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt and Nick Offerman.
Since her breakout role in this beloved sitcom, her fame and popularity have grown exponentially. Most recently, starred in The Plaza White lotuswinning a Screen Actors Guild Award and a nomination for the Golden Globe Awards for his performance.
Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023, there’s no doubt that Aubrey Plaza’s career is better than ever. Just this year, this actress starred in Guy Ritchie’s new action film Operation Fortune: Rousse de Guerre and is set to star in several other movies and TV series in the future, including landing a meaningful role in a Disney+ series Agatha: Covenant of Chaos,
While nowadays, he doesn’t have to audition to land bigger roles, when he first started out, Plaza didn’t have much luck auditioning. For example, she tried to audition Saturday night Live But didn’t cast. Despite this, Plaza took a small job producing the show, which she has now admitted she was not really interested in.
starred in parks and Recreation Helped launch Aubrey Plaza’s career
Aubrey Plaza began her career in the mid-2000s performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Shortly after, she started playing minor roles in TV shows such as the online series The Jenny Tate Showespn main streetAnd Terrible Decisions with Ben Schwartz on Funny or Die.
And in 2009, she made her feature film debut playing the girlfriend of Seth Rogen funny people, is a comedy film directed by Judd Apatow. That same year, he starred in the beloved cult-classic film Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, as well as in Derrick Comedy’s Mystery Team,
But she didn’t get her big break until she landed the role of April Ludgate on the NBC sitcom parks and Recreation, produced by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. Plaza’s character quickly became a fan favorite and she would continue to play April during the show’s seven seasons from 2009 to 2015.
In 2012, Plaza received her first major film role. Safety Not Guaranteed, Thereafter, she appeared in several other films including the to do list (2013), life after beth (2014), mike and dave need a wedding date (2016), child’s play (2019), and the happiest season (2020), Black Bear (2020), and Emily the Criminal (2022).
Aubrey Plaza auditioned for Saturday night Live, but didn’t get the roll
Earlier this year Aubrey Plaza created her Saturday night Live First host starring with musical guest Sam Smith. White lotus The actress did such a good job that fans wondered why she wasn’t invited snl Earlier Well, it certainly wasn’t due to a lack of trying on his part.
As it turns out, Aubrey Plaza tried to audition to be in snl Cast early in his career. Unfortunately, she didn’t get the gig. during an appearance The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonPlaza revealed that she auditioned snl with two very quirky original characters, but the producers weren’t impressed.
Plaza told Fallon, “I didn’t make it to the Lorne (Michael) audition, which was the famous final audition, but I showcased the first round.” When the host asked if she had any characters, she replied, “I remember one character I did was like a Puerto Rican news reporter who was always trying to make all the news sexy, Even though they were terrible news. I was just trying to sex the news or something.
Then, Plaza talked about the other character she devised for her audition, this “was a shot housewife who had a show called ‘Celebri-Tales,’ where I would just name celebrities and what kind of people were they.” Will name the tail. If they have a tail.
As I would say, ‘Lindsay Lohan’s got a squirrel tail.’ Or, like, ‘Bill Clinton would have the nub of a polar bear.’ ‘Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to get them on the show.
Despite not making the cast snl, Aubrey Plaza has yet to star in this popular show
despite his failure snl audition, Aubrey Plaza still got a job on the show. From 2004 to 2005, the actress worked as an intern in the design department of this popular late-night live comedy show. while he has to be part snlPlaza admitted that she didn’t really care much for the job.
Plaza revealed, “They loved me because I didn’t care about set design at all, and they wanted an intern who wasn’t interested in learning.” Shadows.” “I was just, like, creepy. Like, I was a fear hunter. Now I’m going to host it, so my master plan worked!”
