When you're an actor, people talk a lot about how, at some point, you really have to take control of your career and what you want to do and create your own content. But for me it came from a really natural place of wanting to feel like what you're putting in the world has some meaning for you.

Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there.

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.

I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy.

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

All I can to, and the only sense of control I have over this crazy moviemaking business, is to pick things that I like with people that I love and respect, and then just hope everything else works out.

What I love about our show is that it's so nuanced and feels very real to me. I think how it explores creativity in general is very real.