The series opens with a successful, rich Craig in the future, recounting how he got there.
Ultimately, through this series of tests, O’Doherty andRobinson show exactly what they’re worthas actors.
It stars Craig Robinson and a lot of really funny other actors.
It’s set in 2016, and it’s deeply surprising.
A lot of stuff happens that you wouldn’t necessarily expect.
It’s this pretty ambitious, but mainly very funny show.
You play Jillian, and she’s very zany and really always optimistic.
Jillian is the exact kind of character I love to play.
I like to play two kinds of characters that I find funny.
It’s either main idiots or friendly idiots, and she’s one of the friendly idiots.
I also really like liars, and Jillian lies all the time.
She’s a pretty bad liar, which I find quite funny.
As you noted, you star opposite Craig Robinson.
What was it like working with him and how did your dynamic form or evolve?
It happened pretty quickly [because] the audition was over Zoom with Craig.
We have really different energies, but that makes for something fun to watch.
We had so much fun together.
It was always so fun hanging out with him on set.
What was that scene like for you, filming it?
We ended up filming that scene over and over again over many days.
It was also the audition scene, so we knew it so well.
We were like, “Now it’s good.”
It was really fun.
That was the first time we got to … it was like, “Here’s a rubber hammer.
Here’s a rubber snake.
You’re covered in snake blood.”
It was a lot going on.
So, just to be clear, there were not real snakes on set?
[Laughs]
There were occasionally real snakes on set, but obviously never for anything that involved killing.
All the snakes were taken very good care of by the American Humane Society.
What obstacles did you face while filming, whether for that scene or for in general?
It got really cold by the end of the shoot.
We shot it in New Orleans, and we were delayed because of Hurricane Ida.
We were going to be wrapping a month or two earlier than we did.
That was pretty challenging for me.
Season 1 of “Killing It” is now streaming exclusively on Peacock.
