We spoke with Auli'i Cravalho & Riele Downs about 'Darby and the Dead' and working with Tony Danza.
The supernatural teen comedy Darby and the Dead follows high schooler Darby Harper , as she juggles the ability to see dead people with trying to live her own life. Helping lonely spirits clear up their unfinished business can be challenging to juggle with homework or explain to friends, so Darby has become an introvert who’s unconcerned with popularity.
RIELE DOWNS: Good question. I feel like, personally, I would definitely be freaked out at first, because I don’t really mess with the other side like that. But after a while, I think it would be a process. I would definitely have moments of wanting to help them, but if I was alone in that, it’d be really difficult. I feel for Darby. Getting to play her character, I was like, “Dang, this is hard.” Just even talking, back and forth, and acting like Auli’i’s character doesn’t even exist was hard.
CRAVALHO: I think it’s a real mix. That was something that I really had to figure out in her backstory. She’s not very empathetic because she’s never had to be. She talks in a higher pitch, and she talks really fast because she’s really excited about things, and she’s a little vapid. But mostly, she’s just a teenager, and she’s having fun.
Riele, I really love how Darby breaks the fourth wall and talks to the camera because we get to see different sides of her when she does that. That also always recalls a bit of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. What was that like to do? It goes against everything actors are usually taught about not looking at the camera, so was there an adjustment to having that feel natural?
DOWNS: Yeah, I definitely feel like that one was a more difficult challenge because, obviously, I’ve never had to do anything like that before. You can put someone in placement of the camera. I’m like, “Oh, the camera’s like my sister.” You talk to people all the time, but no one’s ever just disappeared. So, it was an adjustment to remember, but luckily Auli’i was the only person who we ever had to do that with.
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