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D'Arcy Carden Interview: The Good Place Reunion & The Genius of Sketch
Season 8, Ep. 41
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D’Arcy Carden is the best kind of busy right now. She just wrapped her run on the Emmy award winning series The Handmaid’s Tale where she managed to swoop in during the show’s sixth and final season and quickly establish herself as a fan favorite character. Right now she’s in production on a highly anticipated and star studded Peacock series based on Elin Hilderbrand’s novel, Five Star Weekend. Carden stars in that one alongside Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny and Gemma Chan.
Carden also makes a mark on the indie cinema space this year courtesy of Seth Worley’s phenomenal feature directorial debut, Sketch. The movie utilizes a downright brilliant concept to explore a family’s grief. Jack (Kue Lawrence) and Amber (Bianca Belle) recently lost their mother, and they’re coping with it in two totally different ways, as is their father, Taylor, played by Tony Hale. While Jack and Taylor are bottling it all up, Amber is expressing herself with art — or, more specifically, by drawing violent monsters in her notebook. One day, that notebook falls in a pond. But, it’s not any old pond. This pond has magical powers, and it brings her sketches to life, and those sketches go on to terrorize her town.
Carden enters as Liz, Jack and Amber’s real estate agent aunt. Initially, she’s wholly focused on helping Taylor sell their home but soon comes to realize that the fight against Amber’s drawings is very real, and she’s going to have to fight creatures made of marker, crayon, glitter, and more alongside her brother.
Sketch is a top tier original film. Not only is the story idea genius, but even as a first time feature filmmaker, Worley’s got the skillset necessary to expertly bring the ambitious concept to screen on an independent film budget.
With Sketch now available to rent on digital platforms, Carden visited the Collider Ladies Night studio to discuss her experience making the film, and to look back on unforgettable career milestones like scoring her role in The Good Place, which earned her an Emmy nomination, and her time working on Prime Video’s gone-too-soon A League of Their Own.
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