I think in comedy, the dumber you allow yourself to look, the more juice you can get out of it.”īeatriz describes the trajectory of her career as a series of full-circle moments. He’s such a talented actor, and he’s not afraid to look dumb, which I think is always a bonus for me.

Emotionally, these people are stunted as hell. I don’t know how else to describe it it’s kind of like the first time you’re around somebody that kind of gets your goat but you also think is kind of cute. “I think it shows - I hope it shows! I think our chemistry together as antagonistic partners is joyful to watch, and there’s also something adolescent about it. It wasn’t long after auditioning with actor Anthony Mackie, who co-stars with Beatriz as delivery driver John Doe, that the family bit came easily: “I really enjoyed working with him, being a witness and watching his work,” Beatriz says of Mackie. I’d just never seen anything like that on TV. I understood where Quiet was coming from, who she was as a character. “I couldn’t stop reading because I never read anything like it - it was crazy, amazing, unhinged, ridiculous. “I think I read them all in one day,” says Beatriz while exuding warm, friendly vibes. The star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Encanto prepped for her audition by diving headfirst into a gamer rabbit hole and turbo-reading the scripts. “They were like, ‘Send me pictures! Send me scripts!’ I was like, ‘No, but you can watch it when it comes out!’”

“Tons of friends from my adolescence who I’m still friends with (which will tell you about my sense of humor) were so pumped when I was cast in this,” Beatriz recalls to Shondaland. The following interview was conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization.īefore landing the role of Quiet in the funny, action-packed Peacock series Twisted Metal, actor Stephanie Beatriz had yet to play the infamously popular car combat video game the new series is based on.

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