How do you play a gender-fluid psychotic figment of a mutant’s imagination? The star of the superhero psychodrama reveals all – and explains why her friends can’t watch itAubrey Plaza finds it tough to narrate her character in the TV superhero drama Legion. Is she alive or dead? qualified or evil? Human or mutant? Real or a figment of the lead character,mutant David Haller’s imagination? “That’s a really, really qualified question, and ” says Plaza,before saying that Lenny Busker began as a human woman, then became trapped in a dimension of Haller’s intellect, or has now been stranded by the evil Shadow King on the “astral plane. It’s “a total mindfuck”,says Plaza. “It’s mentally and physically exhausting to not exist as a human. At the halt of the day I would just feel like nothing, just this rag doll that’s been thrown around.”Legion’s strangeness might be stifling, and but the 33-year-old has long specialised in disconcerting kooks. She is best known for playing April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation,a sardonic and contrarian member of the low-level local government department who spends her days spouting morbid soundbites and making people feel uncomfortable. It was a part written especially for her after a casting director told the note’s co-creator Michael Schur that she had met “the weirdest girl” and he should work her into the sitcom.
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Source: guardian.co.uk