Alison Brie

She’s an annoying and bad actress. How does she get cast? Jessica Fletcher — get on it right now! That’s a criminal act for every role she gets.

I thought she was very good as Trudy on Mad Men.

I also disagree, R1. She was very compelling (and amusing) on MAD MEN--a great palate cleanser to, say beautiful but infuriating Jessica Pare and January Jones.

I don't love or follow GLOW, but I found some of season 1 very funny, and she's very good on it. I have to admire her level of commitment: she has a lovely head of hair and actually chose to get an 80's style perm for her character.

And OP: what is the Metz controversy, and Brie's role in it?

Did Chrissie eat Alison?

She's named for a cheese? And she didn't bring any to a hangry Chrissy?

She gets all the Dave Franco dick she wants, a woman to be jealous of indeed.

I've asked this but WHY did the interview say to Chrissy: Hey, Alison Brie's on the other end of the carpet!

Unless they know each other what's the point?

R3 - Cute interview. I love her hair there.

R4- Chrissy supposedly called her a butch.

R5- She named herself Brie. And she did so after the cheese.

I think she's a very good actress. She was excellent in Mad Men. GLOW is a silly show, but she's good in her role and does all she can with it. I've never seen Community, but have heard she was good in that, too. I believe Brie is actually her middle name.

Also, she doesn't want to have kids, which I heartily applaud.

She has a very expressive face.

She got in great shape for GLOW.

She was great in Scream 4.

[quote] [R4]- Chrissy supposedly called her a butch.

And anyone can see she's really a femme!

Worked with her on a Beck video. She was a last minute fill in for another actress who dropped out on a Friday. We shot the video on Monday, and she got all the moves down, never made a mistake. Even the dancers were impressed. Very quiet, super nice.

R12 - Yes! As the assistant.

very funny on Community, scene stealer on Mad Men

did she and Chrissy ever work together on the same show?

how do they even know each other for there to be any bad blood?

Dave Franco probably cheats on her.

She was terrific on Community

Gossiping about Joel McHale’s hair plugs with M.

I hope she got a restraining order on Chrissy Metz

She's cute. Deserves every nomination she's gotten for GLOW. Hope she wins one day.

Did Ailson miss the boat by not getting the role of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? At least she’s Jewish, I’m surprised there was no blow back about that for Rachel.

No, she dodged a bullet not having to deal with that insufferable Amy Sherman-Palladino every day.

I think she's just tremendous on GLOW. She was doing masterful work on Community as well, especially when it comes to facial expressions. Not a false note in her performance there.

Yes, she is masterful at making faces.

She fools around with her brother-in-law, James Franco. She used to find him sexy a few years ago, but now it's pity-fuck city.

What is the Chrissie Metz controversy???

I get her mixed up with Bree Larson and some other Brie person.

She is a good actress, and I haven’t heard anything bad about her. So thumbs up.

After GLOW, her most famous role is Annie from that show Community - it has a pretty big cult following as well her character (straight guys especially).

You never hear any gossip about her - I wonder why that is?

Surprisingly low key career. Especially given the almost total paucity of star power these days. Like someone said Mrs Maisel would have been a natural fit, but that’s still sub-Mad Men. I recall her being outspoken about being a slut years ago, so putting out for work shouldn’t have been an issue?

[quote]You never hear any gossip about her - I wonder why that is?

I’ve come around to believing the people you read about actively seek out the coverage, in one way or another. Relatively easy to keep a low profile - if that’s what you actually desire.

Alison Brie has that theater kid vibe about her.

She's one of the nicest celebs.

The face at the OP confused me until I realised that I thought Alison Pill was named Alison Brie.

Less Alison B.

More Dave B

She did a podcast with Dax Shepard a few months ago. She’s enthusiastic but I found her to be a little ingratiating and ultimately annoying. I loved her as Trudy though.

She admits doing a decent amount of drugs and dating/sleeping around some. No apologies though, which I liked.

Trudy was probably the most complex female character on "Mad Men" (just as Pete was the most complex male character on the show), and Brie was superb at showing the character's depths. She started out as a nouveau riche WASP princess, but as the series progressed you got a sense of both all that she would do for Peter and also where her limits were with him. I thought she had much more grit than not only Betty and Megan, but even Peggy and Joan (who both in the end seemed a bit shallow).

I like her. Her only visible fault is being with the douchey brother of that other douche

At least she chose the handsomer of the two brothers.

I know her husband is a twinky, bossy power-bottom.

Our friend who works in the entertainment industry loves her. I always ask him who is nice to work with and who is horrible. He worked with her last year and said Allison Brie is a gem.

[quote] Our friend who works in the entertainment industry loves her.

Are you Queen Victoria, or do you have multiple personalities?

Eesh, point taken. I type how I talk. A friend of my husband’s and mine. I said “our” without thinking

I’m very judgmental about celebrities, but I love her. I think she’s lovely - better than many of the stars pushed on us... It’s probably about effing for roles, and I’m gonna say she doesn’t.

Doesn't look like Dakota or Leslie are fans.

I really liked Horse Girl. Really strange and entertaining.

[quote]Dave Franco probably cheats on her.

...with his brother.

She looked so young on Community and so old on Glow.

For the longest time I thought she and Anna Kendrick were the same person.

I'm always fascinated by well-balanced (by Hollywood standards) clean-cut looking celebrities who do or have done certain hard drugs. But do any actually admit to partaking in their current life? It's always "in college" or "a few years ago." I guess some are honest and others are just smart. Lady Gaga is the only one I can think of, but she quickly backtracked and became moralistic about it.

I can't tell if her chirpy vibe is an act or really her. Maybe it's that theater kid thing?

This isn't anything outrageous, but according to someone on this forum, she had a nervous breakdown on the set of "Sleeping with Other People" because she kept missing up her lines and they were close to running out of time. I can totally see that. She has the vibe of someone who is ready to lose it at any moment. Like a theater kid who is barely keeping it together.

I wanted to like her because of Mad Men but since she is married to a Franco she is suspect.

She was sweet on Community but not as good as Yvette Nicole Brown. I thought Alison was married to Vincent K from Mad Men.

I adore her. I hope that rumor about the breakdown isn’t true.

She was supposed to be a one episode wonder on Mad Men but she was such a scene stealer she got bumped up to recurring.

She shot a Mad Men scene in pee.

[quote] I thought Alison was married to Vincent K from Mad Men.

That’s Alexis Bledel, who played a character he had a pathetic affair with on the show.

Both tiny brunettes with the initials AB.

Thanks, Bootsy.

I'd rather have pudgy face Anna Faris, better comic timing.

I like her a lot too. She’s excellent on Community (disclosure: it’s one of my favorite shows) and Glow. Also very good on Mad Men. I read a gossip blurb somewhere that said she used to donate a full paycheck once a month to a variety of charities when she was working on both Mad Men and Community. It could be bs, but she seems like the type who would share the good luck.

R24 I KNEW it. I knew A S-P was insufferable in real life. She seems the type who talks endlessly about herself and the second anyone says one thing about themselves she gets bored and asks “do you ever talk about anyone but yourself?” All her shows revolve around a self-absorbed narcissist as a main character.

I’ve also heard she’s a good egg. She was so good on GLOW, it’s a shame Netflix reneged on the final season

That almost made me homicidal, r62. Talk about leaving a narrative dangling. The show itself wasn't of great consequence, but there were some very good performances.

Love her as an actress.

Saw her on Kimmel a few months ago, and I was really impressed. She was smart, funny, warm, and really entertaining. Came across as a genuinely nice person and had Jimmy laughing a lot.

I like her a lot. She's always interesting either as the lead (HORSE GIRL, GLOW) or supporting (MAD MEN, SCREAM 4, that awful Hulu lesbian Christmas movie).

Netflix really sucks for not giving GLOW one more season.

"Happiest Season" was not awful. Anyway she was in a lot of movies this year. I enjoyed all of them. "Horse Girl" was my favorite, but Promising Young Woman will probably overtake it on repeat viewings.

She was a very naughty girl on Community and needed periodic punishments by her co-stars

67 posts and no mention of Bojack Horseman?? She was fantastic as Diane.

I remember seeing a Q&A with some of the Community cast members from back in the day and she was drunk as a skunk.

I guess you haven’t met friend Brittanie Camembert?

I think most comedic actors/actresses and comedians do hard drugs. So it makes sense that she would as well. It's in their personality.

And a vary good singer

She comes across as very intelligent. During her scenes in Mad Men, she stole the show. There's another Allison who stars in superhero movies who is bland as hell.

I notice there's always been a balancing act with Alison Brie. She wants to this cool girl female comedian who acts super sexual in male-driven nerdy shows like Community and other make-driven movies. Naked in female-driven movies and shows. Flaunts her feet to creeps. Admits to doing drugs and having wild sexual adventures in college. Very delicately defends/apologizes for problematic people like Dan Harmon and Chevy Chase. But she doesn't push it too far because she doesn't want to offend more sensitive progressive types. She also hasn't done a sexy photoshoot in years and doesn't take on male-driven nerd fantasy "Community" or "Get Hard" type roles anymore.

She never apologized for her cultural appropriation playing an Asian woman. Even Emma Stone apologized for that and promised she'd never do it again.

She was good in Horse Girl on Netflix.

R75 I had to Google that absurd shit and yeah, she did say she regrets voicing an Asian cartoon. Oy vey.

I only know her from Happiest Season & Promising Young Woman and she was great in both of them.

Horse Girl was a great, weirdly disturbing film and she was fantastic in it.

I really hate Netflix for not doing a final season of GLOW. Allison and Betty Gilpin were great together.

She never even talks about Community anymore.

She doesn't want kids and that's very admirable. A woman who doesn't want to have a child seems very sci-fi or something.

R76, another case of appropriation!

I bet she’s down for MMF three-ways with Franco

Yes I said before she has access to some nice James Franco dick.

It's probably not stinky the other Franco.

She even flat-out admitted to being embarrassed by some of her earlier photoshoots.

The Britta character on "Community" is the embodiment of what a Republican thinks all liberals/progressives are like. The writers treated her like crap. i know Dan Harmon is an asshole, but I wonder if he's a Republican as well?

Overall, "Community" isn't nearly as funny or clever as it thinks it is. And it largely upholds the status quo.