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The world may know Aubrey Plaza as the high priestess of deadpan comedy, always ready with a cutting remark or disdainful eye roll, but the actor/ comedian has had a secret ambition burning inside of her. “I’ve always wanted to be in an action film,” she admits over Zoom from San Francisco. “I grew up very athletic. I was always playing sports. It’s not something that I ever thought would actually happen. But it’s definitely something that I’ve always dreamed of.” She didn’t just want to make people laugh, she wanted to indulge her inner Sarah Connor.
When Plaza found out from a producer she’d worked with that Guy Ritchie was making a new film, she was determined to make that dream a reality, pursuing him with the kind of dogged perseverance worthy of any grizzled action hero. The pair had a virtual meeting. “Then I heard through the grapevine
