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I have been into studying animals for basically my whole life. Not a day goes by where I don't pour through books and documentaries relating to them, and I am especially in love with their anatomy. Becauseof my knowledge,to me, 3D animals always felt weird for some reason, They never seemed animal. I don't know how to explain it but they always feel off. I pour hours and hours into making up species and trying to figure out how to make them seem animal even if they don't exist. Even Disney with their million dollar budgets couldn't get this. I concluded that it's just impossible to make something cgi feel 100% animal. But you??? Just??? Did it??? I literally have chills. They look like actual creatures. I don't know what you did or how you cracked the code but I am just in awe, I feel like I've stumbled upon some kind of hidden treasure trove. Honestly and genuinely with every animal loving bone in my body your stuff is the most impressive I've seen and I applaud you for it.

Wow, I think it's an honor to hear this! :D I don't consider myself that good, heh, but thank you very much! 💙

As an animal art lover, I think I understand what you mean! I think this because people are less aware of all the details of animals, and tend to be less picky and less attentive to their features and expressions. But if you know animals well, you can notice many small details that make them seem weird or unnatural. This is true for me too - any animal I try to draw or model will most likely be really weird and look a bit like a Vaeraf, because I'm too used to them :D

But speaking of my characters and art, this (as well as many other questions and comments) made me think about my perception of animals and my characters, so I decided to share my thoughts. I hope you don't mind! ^^ The fact that my characters are perceived as animals, with all the nuances of such perception and attitude, is a rather complex topic for me to think about.

I don't know if it matters, but I believe so - I don't see my characters as animals - meaning wildlife, because for me Vaerafes are hardly more wild animals than humans, while Tkhorm is a Varlaf, a kind of fantasy spirit, a mystical creature. I understand why other people perceive them as animals and that's ok, technically we are all animals, but often this leads to a certain impersonal perception of them, seeing them as just cool creatures, "things" to pet or be afraid of, or with a focus on biology and anatomy. But I see my characters as persons, as people in fact, with their own personality, sometimes quite complex thinking, personal dilemmas and philosophy, which simply belong to another species, even if their species is non-human, fictional and fantasy. Their movements, their expressions, their appearance, even their anatomy and species - all this is part of them as persons, of who they are.

Real animals, especially complex and intelligent ones, also have all this in their own way, they aren't just biological objects.

Also, I don't work with characters because I create species, but I learn about species because my characters happen to belong to that species, so I need to learn at least a little about their nature to understand them as persons. I learn, allowing them to live their lives inside my head and tell me their story, their life. It doesn't matter if it's something realistic, fantasy, or crazy and cartoonish chaos - that sometimes happens too. (and now I suddenly realized that I actually never even really wanted my characters to be some kind of fictional species, but it just turned out to be so, because no real animal suits them, heh!)

And knowing my characters as individuals and persons, I can say that I still have a lot of work to do, really a lot, maybe even more than I have already done :D

The problem with Disney movies, if I take the 3D Lion King as an example, is that they were never animals. They were never even meant to be animals. They are slightly stylized - too little to be anthropomorphic and humanly expressive, but enough to seem "wrong" for realistic animals. And since the behavior and expressions of the real animals don't work for their story and the interactions between the characters, they seem weird and even less expressive than real animals. I believe this is not a problem of artists and budget, but of the concept as a whole, including the story that didn't intend for its characters to actually be realistic animals.

Whereas realistic animals… well, they are difficult to use them for a beautiful movie for a wide audience. Although there are such things as, for example, "Prehistoric Planet". These are dinosaurs, but they are animals too, so I think they can be considered 3D animals being animals, heh! :D Plus, they're just really beautiful and well made. I would recommend watching this to all 3D animal lovers c:

(Sorry for such a long post, but this is a really catchy and interesting topic for me ^^')

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Who changed Lola Bunny?

Malcolm D. Lee explained, “This is 2021. It’s important to reflect the authenticity of strong, capable female characters. … So we reworked a lot of things, not only her look, like making sure she had an appropriate length on her shorts and was feminine without being objectified, but gave her a real voice. For us, it was, ‘Let’s ground her athletic prowess, her leadership skills, and make her as full a character as the others.'”

(See the complete interview here: X)

So, gone are her curves, thigh-high drawstring shorts and midriff-baring crop top. Instead, Lola Bunny now takes on a sportier look wearing a more standard basketball vest and leggings under her track shorts.

But, let's see more deeply what determinated this choice:

1. Being mad at a fan art is sad, people.

Before, a sad 50 yo guy starts complaing about how "cancel culture" or "politically correct" ruined his life - Really? Changing a cartoon bunny from a movie you didn't see for a decade ruined your life? Wow. Someone should really review the list of their priorities -, let's see how really Lola looked in the 1996 original Space Jam.

Here we have original Lola Bunny:

(Here you can see all Lola's scenes in Space Jam: X)

Yes, Lola walked in a sexy way that show off her curves, or at least she seemed to have curves (a little breast, tight waist, long legs, bootie), but those are not big as in the fan art you are seeing around, and Lola's curves are not evidenced during the match or when she played. Is more her attitude and posture that made her look sexy. However, althought her curves clearly changes every time she is doing something different, from action to action, there are some scenes in which she is purposely made sexy, with saxophone music as soundtrack and male-gaze sections that ends in the same way, Lola surrounded by a bunch of horny and howling cartoon guys.

That's appropriate with Jessica Rabbit: she is purposely made and designed as a parody of the femme fatale from old hard boiler movies, in which attractive, mysterious women were portrayed as evil and manipulative gals who hide criminal intentions. Jessica, with her intentionally exaggerated body, subverted the misogyny of 40s and 30s detective movies: she is kind-hearted, truly loves her naive and goofy husband Roger and uses her powers (beauty and cunning) to protect him. Her body too is used for comic sketches, while this not happens for Lola, that's just a serious and indipendent basketball player. So, the male obsession for her body is out of place, expecially because she reacted with anger at being misconsidered only for being an attractive female bunny. “Don't call me doll” is her catch phrase. So, it seems strange she didn't react at all at the very sexualized presentation at the final basketball match: Lola simply shows her basketball skills, ignoring or accepting passively the reaction of the honey crowd of wolves around her. (Please, notice the association: Lola “admirers” are wolves, predators, while Lola, their object of desire, is a rabbit, a prey)

This is the cartoon version of cat calling: they are like a group of men who sit on their porches and whistle at girls everyday when they walk in from of them. A normal girl or woman would pass over this thing, even if they are bothered, unconfortable or embarassed, because they are more scared by a possible violent reaction of this whistling horny guys at their legitimate anger objections. But here, we are talking of Lola, a strong Looney Tunes bunny, and she could smash that damn basket ball on wolves' face, breaking all their teeth. That would be very a Looney reaction. But Lola doesn't react at all at this situation. Here, on my opinion, screenplayers missed an opportunity, but probably they thought to have already did too much with Lola's personality and “girl power”.

Remember also that Lola is the only young cartoon female character we see in the whole movie. So we can't do a proper comparison with other female relevant characters' rapresentation. (See here for a deeper analysis of Lola's origin and development: X)

However, compared with Bugs, Lola looks more fit, more humanized than Bugs. Lola has clearly a definited breast and booty, but it looks like is more her posture that makes them relevant. Lola has clearly shoulders back to show the rack. Bugs is anthropomorphic but remains an animal, has no shoulders or pectorals more like a human and looks a bit over-weight (fat belly). And his posture don't keep that stomach in, chin up, and march forward.

Lola, on the other hand, has a more human structure. That's why I say she has curves. An example are Mickey and Minnie who are two beans in the same way it is not that Mickey is a bean and Minnie has small tits, they are structurally alike.

Lola's body remembers highly No-Ribs-Jasmine from Aladdin (see the gif for reference). That unrealistic Barbie-like waist that was so popular in the 90s and 80s. (See here for references: X and X)

Now, we are changed a lot from the past 24 years. Barbies didn't have that impossible, unrealistic waist-line anymore, Disney princess concept has changed (see Merida and Moana).

Lola concept is changed in 2012: her design for the new cartoons is totally different and her personality too. She wear a blue or violet dress, almost flat-chested and she was made annoying and silly, just to make a contrast with Bugs smarter. Just like Daffy Duck is dumb as hell and his new girlfriend, Tina Russo (no more dear old Melissa Duck), is way smarter than him. Tina is tough, street-smart, rebellious and feisty. But we will see this thing in the next point.

2. People on the upper floors hated Lola personality.

Lola Bunny had only few lines in Space Jam, but she definitely passed the first impression that she was draw only for make male characters fall in love. Lola was a good basketball player and show it off, in front of a skeptical and then astonish bunch of cartoon guys and also Michael Jordan. She also had a strong personality and said it clear to Bugs she didn't like being called "doll". Lola was beauty and curvy, but not a cheerleader. Lola was a basketball player. Remember this part, because we will talk about basketball in the next point.

If at the box office Space Jam was a success, at Warner Bros there were those who turn up their noses, and they are important people, from the upper floors, who accused the film with Michael Jordan of having completely distorted the philosophy of the Looney Tunes. They blamed Lola Bunny more than everything else. Producers of Warner Bros said she was too perfect for the moody group of Warner cartoons: she was too sensual, provocative and independent, totally alien to that core of crazy characters that act as an exaggeration of the vices of 'man.

And fans hated her too. Chuck Jones, creator of the Merrie Melodies said: "Lola Bunny is a character with no future, she’s a totally worthless character with no personality."

So, Lola Bunny was deleted. Lola would make only some brief apparitions in some comics edited by DC Comics, in Baby Looney Tunes, in which she was a toddler with a very similar personality and resemblance to Space Jam adult version, and also as playable character in some unsuccessful videogames.

Years passed and projects for a sequel of Space Jam never become reality, so in 2003 Warner Bros relased Looney Tunes Back in Action. But Lola wasn't here, because the movie purposely want to make a deep cut with what we saw in Space Jam, according to what said it's director Joe Dante. This movie was a totally failure, but it gave back to Looney Tunes their craziness.

Years passed again, but this time is 2011, 10th of May on Cartoon Network was relased the second episode of The Looney Tunes Show. The series aimed to strongly relaunch the Looney Tunes, long gone from the glories of the past, updating the stories of Bugs Bunny and associates in a sitcom key, with the rabbit sharing a house with Daffy Duck in a suburb of Los Angeles. All interspersed with sketches by Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner done in CGI and the updated return of the Merrie Melodies. But the big news of the second episode is that LOLA BUNNY RETURNED.

And Lola was a character with some relevance within the series, even if something didn't seem right with her. Lola looked different, she was no longer the rabbit version of the femme fatale seen in Space Jam: she was naive, talkative, with her head in the clouds, crazy to the point of becoming Bugs Bunny's stalker. Bugs after having fallen in love with her at first glance understands on the first date that he absolutely can't stand Lola. She is no longer the Lola we used to know, even if the appearance is similar and the name is the same. Lola is effectively a Looney Tunes now. And the fans like her, the public like her, Warner Bros like her.

(See Lola in The Looney Tunes Show here: X)

But this is a big walk in behind from the indipent character we used to know in Space Jam. Lola was turned into the stereotype of the crazy girlfriend for a while. And this is not a surprise, if we remember that in 2012 were popular the "overly attached girlfriend" meme template. (See here for references: X)

However, in The Looney Toons Show Lola has some very funny moments, while in Space Jam she was more serious and a little out of space among the other characters. (See here for references: X)

3. What women wear when they play basketball?

Women's National Basketball Association was only created in 1996. So, women's basketball were not considered - and still is not considered - as important as men's basketball at the time Space Jam was filmed.

In Space Jam 2 there will be WNBA players with a significant role, for example Diana Taurasi and Nneka Ogwumike.

Professional female athletes aren't that curvy because curves are determined by body fat and they have a little.

As a busty volleyball player, I can say, dear people, breats could be very annoying during sport activities: it could be a pain, when you run or jump. That's because a lot of women wear sport bra to compress and support their breast. Sports bra may also include layered cups or a high neck to keep everything in place and protect from painful hits, so women can be safe and comfortable during workouts.

Female basketball players didn't wear crop-tops and tight shorts to play. They wear exactly what Lola wears in the picture above: long sleeveless tees, large shorts and maybe protective gears such as knee pads, sleeves or braces to reduce chronic pain caused by the immense burden put on the knees in basketball, to prevent bruises caused by collisions and hard fall and to provide support after a significant knee injury like an ACL tear. They could wear also compressive arms sleeves to help muscles that are sore or overworked to recover faster. The sleeve enables your blood flow to circulate quicker to the heart, which helps you heal and recover quicker.

Wow. WNBA wears Exactly what wear NBA players. So surprising.

4. This is only a promotional character sketch, not what Lola would look in the movie.

Space Jam 2 would be developed in CGI and there are a little preview frames going around, included one showing Lola jumping and you can see her breast shape. But she totally looks like a comic cartoon character. It's not humanized. It's not designed to be the sexy love interest. She doesn't look out of space among the others anymore, expecially because seems that there would be also Tweety's Granny and Melissa Duck or Tina Russo as players too.

5. Reality.

Really? You want a human anthropomorphic rabbit? Well, Lola as a rabbit would have something like six nipples, but no human-like breast. And, also, real life girls have ribs. No one in real life is that thin. Oh, well, if you don't considered Pixee Fox, a model who had surgically removed six ribs and wears daily a compressive bust corset (yes, like the one that made Elizabeth Swan faint in the first movie of Pirate of the Caribbean) to look like a cartoon fairy (Tinkerbell, you are the one to blame for this).

(See here for references: X)

In conclusion, we can say that all this controversy is based only on a porny fan art and that Lola “new” graphic isn't change too much from the original Space Jam movie. It's just a little more cartoonish.

We can also firmly remeber that Space Jam 2 is going to be developed for children, to relunch Looney Tunes among new generations of children, who are the largest buyers of merchandising (including Happy Meals surprises) and consumers of new cartoons that surely would be developed, if Space Jam 2 would be a success.

However, we should admit that those kids probably know better the 2011 version of Lola than her original version and that 2011 version was more appreciated by fans and producers. Lola's voice actress, Kristen Wiin won BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award in 2012 and was nominated for that prize also about three times in the following years. Also Rachel Ramras, Lola's voice actor was nominated for BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award in 2016 for her role in Looney Tunes: Rabbit Run.

We don't know anything about Lola's personality in Space Jam 2, so we can't do a proper comparison or a prevision, but, according to what Malcolm D. Lee said, we can assume that original personality of Lola would be preserved.

The controversy is relevant only for Lola's body and not for her personality, and that's is highly rappresentative of what impressed more this bunch of grow-up kids. They grow up to be like the horny wolves and they are howling because their prey is not available anymore.

And, to be honest, being so obsessed with the breast and the body of a cartoon character (that is clearly made up for kids) it's not sane at all. Sorry to say that, but sometimes people need to drink from a bottle of truth.

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Essay代写：BoJack Horseman

下面为大家整理一篇优秀的essay代写范文- BoJack Horseman，供大家参考学习，这篇论文讨论了《马男波杰克》。《马男波杰克》以喜剧为标签，但同时具备着许多致郁性元素，是一部有着悲剧内核的喜剧。该剧设定在普通人类和拟人化动物共同生活的世界，主角波杰克是一个被拟人化了的、被许多问题所困扰的好莱坞过气名马。《马男波杰克》不仅仅是围绕着马男波杰克，他的朋友们也都有各自的人生问题，把人生中所遭遇的困境挫折、个人自身的动摇与危机，全都撕开了展示给观众，每个观众总能在其中看到自己的影子，看到自己的生活困境和挣扎着改变的样子。

BoJack Horseman was released by NetFlix in 2014, and now has five seasons with 60 episodes and one Christmas special. Season 6 will return in September 2019. The play is labeled with comedy, but at the same time has many elements of melancholy, is a comedy with a tragic core. The show has been well received by the audience and media since its debut. The freshness of the second and third seasons on rotten tomatoes is 100%, and the rating of the fifth season on douban is above 9. On weibo, WeChat and other media platforms, you can see a large number of articles and pictures related to this play, which are widely spread among the contemporary youth groups. It is the most popular and most tragic comedy.

The show is set in the common human and anthropomorphic animals live together in the world, the main character bojack is a anthropomorphic, is troubled by many problems Hollywood famous horse; His human partner Todd lives in his home and is an asexual; Bojack's manager and ex-girlfriend princess Caroline is a pink cat image, she is crazy about work and at the same time eager to have a child to save her life; Diane, the woman who wrote bojack's autobiography, is smart, talented and thoughtful, but she also has a deep loss like bojack. The play is not only around the male wave jack ma, his these friends also have their own problems in life, the writers to the difficulties encountered by a setback in life, the individual's own shake and crisis, tear all the show to the audience, each audience can see his shadow, see their life and struggle to change.

This series by portraying the character, the plot of the story narration expresses the human uniqueness, and to tell the audience, the life is not equal to idea, met with setbacks, or even just simply not happy, it's not your fault, this is will happen to everyone, and you are you, do not escape, don't make more trouble for yourself, to face it. The drama also USES the value of communication to complete the transformation from "zhiyu" drama to "cure" drama.

Postmodernism is a trend of thought in art, social culture and philosophy that took place in Europe and America in the 1960s and became popular in the west in the 1970s and 1980s. Its essence lies in abandoning the basic premise of modernity and its normative content. Habermas pointed out: "the modern view of man changes with different beliefs. This belief is driven by science, which believes in the infinite progress of knowledge, society and improvement." The key feature of modernity, in berman's view, is its double-edged nature: the change that disrupts tradition is exciting, but the loss of certainty of the old is frightening. Modern people for the uncertainty of panic, in their presence, the meaning is not clear in funeral culture, philosopher Charles Taylor is put forward in the origins of the self, is the most typical ethical dilemma of modern significance of the loss of feeling, or feel that life is meaningless, without direction, there is no certainty.

"Postmodern" is a new development of "modern". Hegel's enlightenment grand narrative was subverted in the post-modern era, and "the death of the subject" became a very popular concept, with de-centralization, loss of subjectivity and subversion of reason. The self - confident, rational individual knows within the vast system that he is an insignificant individual. Cultural plane, industrialization, vulgarization, fast food, fragmentation, the post-modern literature and art in the modernist literature and art of the anti-rational, to show the individual's inferiority, loneliness, rebellion and wild tendency, further play, and add anti-depth, anti-elite culture, anti-aesthetic, anti-form and other new content.

In the postmodern state, lyotard pointed out that the post-modern society is a society based on the computer industry. Knowledge, as a productive force, is embodied as a symbol of power. This leads to the basic social contradictions into contradictions between people, people and their own contradictions. With the extensive penetration of culture into all areas of commodities, consumer culture emerged, which reduced the status of spiritual products from the noble to the status of ordinary commodities, and spiritual production became commodity production. In order to adapt to the supply and demand relationship of commodities, these cultural products need to constantly change forms to meet the needs of mass consumption. The reason why the American TV series BoJack Horseman can attract wide attention and spread is precisely because the banter and dissolution of the weak resistance of individuals to the background of the era reflected in the TV series.

Foucault in the order of things, put forward the "death of man", the "death of man" is here as a knowledge form and ideology of their deaths, foucault believes that the disappearance of the submission for the god of death are synonymous, god and man could have been conditions are explained, and god is god, and man is god overlooking, god is dead, "death". The death of people makes human beings more unable to find a clear and meaningful sense of existence, which is also a feature of the culture of mourning. This feature is expressed through the anthropomorphic treatment of the characters in this American TV series.

BoJack Horseman's world assumes that human beings live together with anthropomorphic human beings, and the differences between species in different images are not as strict as the natural laws in the real objective world. The characters in the play can be divided into human images and non-human images. However, the establishment of such different characters shows no opposition of any species in the play. For example, natural enemies such as cats and mice not only get along peacefully in the play, but also fall in love. In the world setting of "horse man", the characters, whether animal images or human images, are all essentially human after being anthropomorphic. However, this "person" is not an ideological person's idea, but an individual with difference and diversity. For example, the image of this character is a dog, and he will have an unquenchable interest in picking up bones and balls. However, he is just an independent individual with a hobby, and his image is the embodiment of his uniqueness. So in the show, the animal world, the laws of nature are not universal, such as princess Caroline is a cat, her boyfriend is a mouse, a cat and a mouse to want to have a belong to his two baby, but the main problem is not the problem of different species, but because of who I am, Caroline was an older woman, her body is difficult to give birth to, this is just to express the plight of contemporary older women through Caroline, different animal image is a symbol of individual uniqueness.

Postmodernism believes that there is no eternal and universal value, and gives up the pursuit of "ultimate truth". In the post-modernism view, it is wrong to generalize the living world with logic. Language plays a role in shaping realistic ideas, and derrida believes that language should be reconstructed. Foucault believed that the function of theory no longer discusses the truth, but only criticizes the phenomenon and thinks that theory is just a game of language. Postmodernism regards the dissolution of the center and essence as its main task, and the dissolution of all things is also the dissolution of the legitimacy of all authority. BoJack Horseman's "dispelled golden sentence" is everywhere. The protagonist BoJack doubts everything. In love, BoJack thinks that "the outcome of love is not to hurt others or be hurt, so why love". When it comes to marriage, bojack says, "how do you know what you're going to do when you give the rest of your life to someone else?" Even bojack's philosophy of life is "life is to hit a wall everywhere", "life is just to kick your urethra" and so on, "a lot of such" toxic chicken soup "in the play is actually the banter and digestion of mainstream views in the post-modern context.

In the post-modern era, culture expands unprecedently, and the generalization or popularization of culture makes art have no boundary, which yi hassan calls "intertextual text". This kind of beyond the boundaries of various arts, beyond the boundaries of art and reality, resulting in the disappearance of the opposition between art and non-art, high culture and popular culture. BoJack Horseman has a large number of crossover interludes of other arts in the real world, and the intertexturality is not only reflected in film and television works, film and television characters, film posters and other fields, but also in popular culture, world famous paintings and even social and political satire. Films such as "a generation of proud horse", "war horse", "black hawk down", "three clients in gold", the film and television characters such as director Alfred Hitchcock, Steven spielberg, quentin, actor Daniel, margarita, Andrew, Kate, moreover is the emergence of the painting, Andy warhol and Keith haring pop art, fauvism Matisse's "dance", the German expressionism Franz marek's "blue horse no. 1", David hockney's portrait of the artist ", etc. All kinds of art in BoJack Horseman go beyond boundaries, which further illustrates that art is no longer a static text, but a process of action.

Baudrillard believes that postmodernism is the era of nihilism, which holds that the world, life and human existence have no objective significance, purpose value or internal order. The antonym of nihilism is existence. The content of existentialism lies in overcoming nihilism, trying to solve the problem of human living condition revealed by nihilism, and finding human value beyond reason. That's what BoJack Horseman's show is all about. If life is meaningless, what should we do?

Most of the characters in BoJack Horseman live in the pain of existential nothingness, living in a meaningless world. We can have the meaning and value of existence, but this value must be created and maintained by ourselves. This creation can be done through the free choice of things, but the choice is also painful. Bojack is always in a desperate mood, he is desperate to have no choice or too many choices to decide, he is desperate to explore who I am, and he is desperate not to be his expected image. It's not just bojack, but every character in the show has this desperation, and Todd is constantly exploring his sexuality, even as he confirms that he's asexual, while still searching for meaning. Princess Caroline has always worked feverish hours to escape anxiety and create her own value by becoming a mother. Kierkegaard believed that the anxiety of choice comes from the uncertainty after each choice. We are free to take responsibility for our choice, and such responsibility brings anxiety. Bojack said, "I'm responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast." To express anxiety. The way to solve this anxiety is to accept the absurdity of reality. Camus believed that the universe was meaningless, and it was an absurd contradiction for humans to find meaning and reason in it. Existentialism is a way of accepting the absurdity of reality, coping with the meaningless universe with the meaning created by oneself, and trying to be a meaningful existence in the meaningless world. True heroism, after all, is to love life after seeing it for what it is.

If modern art works can still bring some comfort and pleasure to the audience in a consistent form, then post-modern art works no longer take comfort from perfect forms and share the same taste collectively. BoJack Horseman breaks through the old forms with his unique style. He does not tell the so-called grand narrative, but reflects on his own social psychology, discusses the contradiction between man and himself in the post-modern context, and still provides meaning and hope in the context of existential nihilism.

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Emmys 2018: How Janet Saved ‘The Good Place’ Breakout D’Arcy Carden’s Career (Exclusive)

D’Arcy Carden delivered one of ET's Standout Performances of the 2017-18 season.

D’Arcy Carden is finally in a good place -- and not because she’s one of the stars on the cleverly inventive NBC comedy The Good Place, though that certainly helps. For two seasons, the actress has delighted audiences as Janet, the likable, very helpful anthropomorphic guide with a sunny disposition who began as a fictional all-knowing personal assistant akin to an Alexa or a Siri but has evolved into someone -- rather, something -- slowly inhabiting the elements that make human beings human.

The role has made Carden a breakout star on the Michael Schur series, which examines the afterlife and the complexities of moral ambiguity and is led by TV veterans Ted Danson and Kristen Bell. Strange as it may seem, the 38-year-old actress says Janet is very much her spirit animal -- though the reason why remains somewhat of a mystery even to herself. After all, she isn’t an android armed with an infinite knowledge of the universe, or the 25th version of herself, or an objective truth-teller.

“There’s something about Janet that is so inside of me,” Carden muses, acknowledging how silly that may sound. “I know she’s not quite a human, but I connect with her so much that I wonder, if I’d have gotten this at 25 or 30, if it’d have been a different story.”

It’s a bright Friday morning in March, and we’re seated in a shaded area at one of her favorite neighborhood bistros in Los Angeles’ hipster enclave, Silver Lake. Carden, casual in a basic white tee and jeans with minimal makeup, is the visual antithesis of the brightly colored, ‘70s-flight-attendant-esque outfits that have come to define Janet’s signature look (and serve as the inspiration for many Halloween costumes -- “it’s unreal,” she marvels). The San Francisco Bay Area native, who spent much of her 20s and 30s doing improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, came late to the fame game, though she knew early on -- around age 6 -- that she was destined to be an actress.

“It’s such a dumb career choice, because it’s so unlikely,” Carden candidly says as she sips her coffee, referring to the unattainable success many seek in Hollywood. She recalls a college professor offering a stern warning on one of her first days as an acting student: “‘Get out. If you want to do anything else, anything, do it,’ he said. I took that in. I heard it. There’s just something about [acting] that I was like, ‘I just can’t stop.’”

Before The Good Place, Carden had cameos in a handful of movies and exercised her comedy chops in niche sitcoms like Broad City, Comedy Bang! Bang! and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. It seemed for a long time that these bit parts and improv showcases would be as good it would get for her -- but it wasn’t sustainable. “I was definitely struggling,” she says. “I’ve had many years of being so excited for my friends, but also being left in the dust. The Good Place came along at a time that meant the most it possibly could mean. The timing is kind of incredible. There’s something about getting this exactly where I am at this point in my life where I couldn’t appreciate it any more.”

When the audition for Janet landed in her lap, she went into it with a reserved enthusiasm after years of heartbreaking rejections. “There’s a little bit of protecting yourself,” Carden says. “For some reason, I didn’t put my eggs in the basket as far as, like, ‘I’m gonna get this.’ But I was going to impress them.” Realistic about her chances of landing the part (“The only reason they won’t cast me is I’m not famous,” Carden thought at the time), she saw the audition process -- performing a fake script about a helpful, nonjudgmental woman giving advice on how to fix broken dolls and a two-page monologue on how to find the bathroom -- as a way to get her foot in the door for the next project. She didn’t know it at the time, but her big break had arrived.

Ted Danson and D'Arcy Carden in a scene from 'The Good Place.'

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Playing Janet, The Good Place’s uber-positive, invaluable aid to Eleanor (Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Jason (Manny Jacinto) and Tahani (Jameela Jamil), was a unique experience for Carden, who found it difficult at first to add depth to a character incapable of reacting to human feelings like you or I would. “It was such a weird struggle. It seems so silly for an actor to not show emotions -- all we are taught is to react. Halfway through a day of filming I’d find Mike Schur on set and be like, ‘I need help. How do I do this?’” she thinks back. “I just needed to wrap my head around it, but then it started to really settle in. I felt her. I understood her. And she’s changed so much that I kind of have to keep up with that.”

Surely enough, in just 26 episodes, Carden went from talented troupe member to undeniable scene-stealer through her whip-smart, nuanced performance as an A.I. with memorable zingers and random bits of useless facts filed in her programmed brain. (Carden is an Emmy contender for the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category.) As the series progressed, different incarnations of Janet have popped up, giving her a rare opportunity to show off different facets of her comedy voice: There’s the Janet we’ve all come to love and, of course, the rebellious, leather jacket-rockin’ Bad Janet.

“I got to a point where it was like the writers and I shared a brain,” Carden says. “Every time I got a script, I would be like, ‘I know exactly what they want me to do,’ and I really started feeling like we were living in each other’s bodies -- meaning me and Janet.”

One perfect example is Janet’s adorable, bumbling infatuation with Jason, which Carden compared to a junior high fling. “You’re kind of like, ‘What are these feelings?’ Her brain is not mature and she can’t download a program, like, ‘This Is How to Handle Love,’” she points out, chuckling at the improbable courtship. “It’s fun to sort of play this child-like innocence and her trying to figure out what this feeling is. Does she even have feelings?”

Carden’s unspoken bond to her character is so tight that there are times -- especially when the show is in production, which kicked up in April -- that she has a hard time differentiating where D’Arcy ends and Janet begins. “We both have positivity; usually, I’m a glass-half-full type of gal. I’m more judgmental than Janet, [but] I try to be more like [her],” she says. “I just feel like I know who she is and what she would do in every situation” -- no matter how ridiculous: Janet creating a fake boyfriend named Derek -- “and veering from that feels so false. It feels like cheating or lying, and I can’t do it. Maybe with some other character I could, but I can’t do it with her.”

Equally engaging are the curveballs The Good Place has thrown audiences -- and its cast -- thus far in its two-season run. The freshman season closed with a major twist when Janet’s friends learned they were actually in The Bad Place, and the game-changing sophomore closer saw the foursome dropped back on Earth for a chance to prove they are truly capable of becoming better people.

“I had lunch a couple of weeks ago in the writers’ room and all the white boards were full. It’s almost over the top -- headshots and all these storylines and weird little inside jokes. I almost -- it’s like I’m staring at the sun,” Carden says of the upcoming third season, shaking her head in amazement over how detail-oriented the writers are. “And they’re doing this so fast. That’s one of the things that blows me away. In the finale for season two, everybody goes back to Earth [and] Eleanor has that whole year of trying to do good. That could be the entire season three.”

It’s a compliment to the audience, she says, that The Good Place doesn’t drag out these revelations: “We trust you to be able to handle this.” Just don’t ask her for spoilers or speculate what’s to come, as Carden and her co-stars made the conscious decision to stop dissecting every piece of dialogue or plot twist. “Our show is a really fun one to have theories on because everything means something. Even if it’s not what you think it’s going to be, nothing is just there.”

At the end of the day, there’s a sense of pride that the show has a grand goal it’s marching toward, and so far, they “haven’t gone wrong yet,” Carden says. “Every new weird thing they’ve thrown at me, I’ve enjoyed so much, and it has been such a gift as an actor to try something new.”

Though, Carden does offer one hint about season three: “It seems like they’re blowing the world up. Do all of them go to Earth? Will that be the entire season? It could be anything. I couldn’t even tell my husband. We feel like we’re in the government, like I have secrets I can’t reveal. I’m ready for whatever and I cannot wait.”

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