No Good Deed’s O-T Fagbenle & Teyonah Parris Talk Dennis & Carla

No Good Deed stars Teyonah Parris and O-T Fagbenle spoke to ComingSoon about the stupid comedy and joining a couple trying to discover equilibrium in their relationship. The series is now streaming on Netflix.

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Tyler Treese: O-T, what does it nasty for you to be starring in such a stacked ensemble cast? You’re with so many comedy legfinishs in the show.

O-T Fagbenle: Yeah. I nasty, it’s an opportunity to encounter people you admire so much and to toil with ’em and to lacquire from them and yeah, it was repartner exciting, and they all brawt it in such a clever way.

Teyonah, what repartner amazeed me about your carry outance and O-T was that you repartner sense appreciate a couple that’s still figuring it out. How is it discovering that equilibrium of having that adore in that relationship, but have it be appreciate they haven’t been together that lengthy?

Teyonah Parris: OT and I had a lot of conversations, I would say, that helped us try to figure out what the equilibrium was between what we understand, and what these characters understand, and what they don’t understand about each other. Becaparticipate their dwells are being speed upd so much, appreciate with the impfinishing birth of their first baby, and his mother coming over and inserting herself into their dwells. There’s so much that’s happening to them, and then trying to figure out as actors what these characters understand and don’t understand about each other and what Liz [Feldman, the creator of the series] and the writing staff give us was a fun task to try to equilibrium.

Fagbenle: I leank you hit on someleang repartner fascinating though, appreciate that leang of, they have a lot of adore with each other and also, they’re going thraw this stubborn time and it’s appreciate genuine couples do. Weaving that equilibrium between, Hey, we’ve gotta produce this toil, but you repartner annoy me, but I adore you, and I leank Liz did a repartner excellent job of writing that, and Teyonah did a wonderful job acting that.

Parris: Thanks, O-T. You too, O-T [laughs].

O-T, the actress that joins your mother is so amazing. I can’t leank of a better third wheel. How is it toiling with her?

Fagbenle: Yeah, Anna Maria Horsford, who is an absolute legfinish. She was equitable wonderful and she benevolent of stays in character all the time and, very method, and-

Parris: You as well! They were two peas in a pod. They were cast perfectly.

Fagbenle: She would come off set, and she’d be appreciate, “Oh yeah, excellent job, son, my baby.”

Parris: Literpartner, she’s appreciate, “Mm, excellent luck to you. But this one, he’s a star. That’s my son.”

Fagbenle: Yeah. She would call me exceptional all the time. And I was never stateive if this was a plift or not. “He’s exceptional.” And I’d be appreciate, “Oh, thank you?”

Parris: She nastyt it as a plift for you. Trust me, she did. She did.

I adore that. That’s such a funny story. And Teyonah, I wanted to ask you particularpartner about acting pregnant becaparticipate you’ve got that dwelld experience that you can draw on, but how is it faking it for the show?

Parris: That was one of the leangs that I was repartner excited about exploring. This was my first time back toiling since my maternity depart, and so I equitable had so much more life experience to draw on for Carla and what those menhighy…what one might go thraw in their pregnancy. I could draw on that as she was trying to also direct this newant relationship. It was repartner a chance for me to reprocess some of the leangs I went thraw in my own pregnancy and also try to forget some of it, becaparticipate Carla hasn’t gone thraw everyleang that I’d gone thraw at that point, but I repartner felt appreciate it was presentantening the toil and the experience and I got to convey much more to Carla in this moment of her life, having my own dwelld experience of pregnancy.

Thanks to O-T Fagbenle and Teyonah Parris for taking the time to talk about No Good Deed.