. AbbottElemABC star ChrisPerfetti on what's in store for season two of the hit series, along with his fondest memories from the Emmys, where thesherylralph and quintabrunson won big.
), this show’s format is entirely new for you. How have you mastered the rhythm of shooting not only a sitcom, but a mockumentary?
Largely, it’s scripted. While we are definitely flexible on the day to how something is working and whether it needs to be tweaked, it really comes mostly baked. The looks to the camera are very instinctual; they’re not written down. But in terms of the writing and the jokes, I feel very blessed that it comes to me as close to its final form as it’s gonna get, and anything I come up with on the day is not gonna be as funny, usually, as what they’ve already written down.
It’s depressingly cliché that one has to say representation matters. Quinta not writing some big reveal episode that Jacob is queer is, in itself, both political and not. It speaks to that quality in her writing, [where], if you don’t get it, you have to look it up, you have to understand why this isn’t a big deal, or why this is funny.