Edgar Minnows 🦎 & The Afterparty ✨
Zach Woods on shooting for The Afterparty Season 2 and why he finds controlling characters funny
“Of all the genres I had to shoot for, my favourite was the Jane Austen-esque Regency period one. My mom was a Jane Austen fascist so it was nice to be able to fulfil one of my mother’s dreams by occupying a pseudo 19th-Century world.”
“When asked if he could adapt to the world of The Afterparty in their second season, he vents, “There’s a vicious hazing process where actors from the first season did a lot of weird frat rituals. Ben Schwartz made me chug Natty Ice until I had alcohol poisoning, Ayden Mayeri put my head in the toilet — it was horrendous and I encourage people to stand up to that kind of bullying in a way that I did not.”
“I am viewing myself through the eyes of all the other characters…which is how I experience myself in the real world too. I have no internal identity. It is all just what I can assume from the other people around me. Who am I? I have no idea. You tell me, please. I am desperate for your attention and approval. You know what I mean?”
“I have reverence and adoration for writers and they have my full and enthusiastic support. On a show like this, which is a murder mystery told from different characters’ perspectives across genres, actors including myself, often go up to the writers and ask them all sorts of questions about the plot even though we have all read the script a bunch of times. We are completely marooned without them; as an actor, if I had to make up my own dialogue, which as I am currently demonstrating, would not go well.”