Aubrey Plaza has been waiting decades to make her way into John Waters’ filmography, ever since she first watched the 1994 satire “Serial Mom.”

during a Visit with director Sean Price Williams Kim’s video at the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Manhattan. web seriesPlaza thanked Waters for inspiring her taste for comedy in the film.

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“John Waters blew my mind with ‘Serial Mom,'” she said, adding how she “learned about indie films” by working at a video store while in high school.

The “Megalopolis” actor added: “I was really warming to John Waters. I was really into ‘Waiting for Guffman’ and the Christopher Guest movies. (But) ‘Serial Mom’ for me was like, oh my god… I was laughing so hard. I thought this was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Of course I watch all the other movies and think he doesn’t care. “This is so stupid, over-the-top and ridiculous.”

In “Serial Mom,” Kathleen Turner played an unstable housewife. Glenn Close, Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr were also candidates. arguably campy leading role at that time.

Now, exactly 30 years after the release of “Serial Mom” — and 20 years after Waters’ last film, 2004’s “A Dirty Shame” — Plaza will collaborate with the film’s iconic director. Adaptation of his novel “Liarmouth”.

Announced in April 2024, Waters will write and direct the “feel-bad romance” focusing on Plaza’s con artist character Marsha Sprinkle. The waters told Diversity “I’m so excited for him (to star in this), but we don’t have the money yet,” Plaza said at the time.

in 2022, “My Old Ass” and “Agatha All Along” star Plaza told Dizzy He said he emailed Waters “immediately” upon the announcement of the “Liarmouth” remake and begged her to audition.

You’d better let me audition for you. I even look like the girl on the cover (of the book she adapted),’” Plaza said. “I’m only auditioning for John Waters. He told me I’m on his list, but I want to be at the top of the list. I want to be the only one on his list. They told me I was this generation’s Kathleen Turner. I mean, come on, I totally agree. I need that movie.”

Other movie roles Plaza needs? She really wants to work with Quentin Tarantino if he casts her in his 10th and final movie. In Kim’s Video, Plaza highlighted Tarantino’s debut film, “My Best Friend’s Birthday.”

“I’m still waiting for that call, Tarantino,” she joked, saying she would attend one of his features.

Plaza also explained how the family movie “Corrina, Corrina” inspired a scene in her first major movie, “Safety Not Guaranteed.”

“I watched ‘Corrina, Corrina’ once and there’s a moment where Whoopi Goldberg picks up an apple from the tree and she turns around and throws the apple at the little girl and she catches it and looks at it and then you, Plaza, notice the moment in the movie where Whoopi wins it,” she said “When I shot ‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’ which was my first starring role in a movie, Mark Duplass and I had a moment at the grocery store and I asked the director (Colin Trevorrow): ‘Wouldn’t that be nice, really?’ I picked up one of the cans and as he walked away, I turned around like Whoopi. I turn and throw the box at him and he catches it and you say, ‘Oh, do we have something?’ “I totally stole that from Whoopi Goldberg in ‘Corrina, Corrina.’”

Watch the video below to find out how “The Judy Garland Christmas Show” will be part of Plaza’s upcoming filmography: “There are some things that are creeping up on me,” Plaza hinted….

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