The cytcom “Mythic Quest” set in the video game studio is full of unusual workholic. However, there is no desperate, frenzy, or uneasy person as Poppy Lee played by Charlotte Nikudao.
Poppy, an amazing but peculant engineer, is a meltdown and primitive shouting of the war of the will of her business partner, Ian Grim, co -dependent in her egomanac, played by Rob McKelhenny. It is given. (MCELHENNEY has created a show with Charley Day and Megan Gants.
For the three seasons, NICDAO has regarded her characters as everything, from “adorable losing dogs” to descriptor. Recently, she has been looking for a terrible and gorgeous ENFANT terrible thing, thanks to the fourth season paradigm shift, which debuted on Apple TV+this week. (Premier episode is entitled “boundary”.)
“There is always the imbalance of this power between Poppy and Ian. Who is the Queen and who is the king?” Said Nikdao. “Poppy has more power this season. There is no doubt, but that is not the way you expect.”
“Mythic QUEST” is the first major American series of NICDAO, who grew up and still live in Australia. Formerly a classic pianist, singer, orchestra clarinet player, she started acting in high school production and started television career at the age of 17 at Australian children. (Her father, Alfred Nikudao, is an actor in Australia.)
The comedy gig continued. “One of the biggest roles I had so far was the regular of a show called” Camp “, a NBC show shot in Australia,” she said. situation.
If you haven't played a tortured technology genius for the past few years, Nikdao has animated “Solar Opposition”, “Star Trek: Roween Deck”, and his beloved Australian comics “Blue” and “Weird Chores”. I heard the character of the Sitcom that was done. “
Nikudao's own life was informed of what would happen to her intense alter ego, but she pointed out one major difference between them. Buffalo chicken pizza. In a video interview from Melbourne's home earlier this month, Nikudao also regards the new personal growth and her side project, and her father, the first Filipino television actor she has ever been idolized. We discussed. These are excerpts from conversation.
You once explained your mythology employees as “family of dysfunction.” In the new season, Poppy seems to be far from the dynamic.
It's really the heart of Season 4. Poppy never said. “What do you know? I'm going to work on myself. I try to find a way to become a balanced and happy person.” One of the biggest conflict is to find a healthy space. That is, Ian does not know what to do if the relationship is not dysfunctional.
As a person who plays the poppy, do you get the right to say what happens to her?
Producers and writers include us in the character growth method. Poppy was never written as an Australian. She had never been written to be a Filipino. Honestly, she wasn't stated that she was in her twenties. When I was cast a little, these parts gradually began to inform me who I was Poppy. So, this season, what was happening with me in my life began to inform me what was going on in poppies.
She is no longer an exclusive hoodie. Blouse is a big leap for a person like her.
In my opinion, she thought, “She will never wear the same hoodie and jeans.” It's a uniform, her armor. “Don't look at me. Look at my job. I'm practical. I'm an engineer. It's all about my brain.” This is like “Let's play.” It was the first season. Poppy has a boyfriend. She is thinking about how it looks outside of work. She is not just making games anymore. She is making sculptures and conceptual artwork. She says: “I don't intend to apologize anymore. I'm an artist. I'm creative and let me do that show in a way to present myself.”
Regarding she is a so -called “technology woman”, she is not perfect for her being a woman.
I always thought Poppy was asexual, but she was a kind. She had no time to explore the meaning of being a woman. Now she has discovered, “Oh, maybe I'm a sexual being.” She hasn't changed to Barbie, but she finds another part. In the world of technology, women have a lot of pressure to succeed, like many industries, to cosplay masculinity. If you want to be taken seriously as a woman, you have to be as a man as possible. It is cool that she is a little more feminine, and she serves her well.
Poppy is not the only one who is trying to do something new. You have supervised this season's episode.
Since we are very oiled machines, there is a lot of space to experiment. Many of the casts had the opportunity to supervise the episode. This was the first Hollywood show I had done so far, and I was as follows. Is this always done? … And it is said that it is not.
In addition, the father will appear in the short film you wrote and supervised, and the father will be starring. How did it happen?
In 2023, we made it between the actors and the writer's strike. I came back to Australia and felt itching to do something creative. My father has been an actor since the 70's. When I was growing, he was auditioned here and there. He was cast for the scene and episodes as a restaurant manager, gang, doctor, and very stereotyped Asia. Until the past 10 years, there was no space for color actors to shine.
He called me with this idea. “I am trying to make a short film for actors like me in the 60's and find my place in the industry.” Melbourne has many talented friends. We gathered and “Can we make this in two days with the resources we have?”
Since I got the taste of the director, do you want to do more in the future with both “mythical exploration”?
I always said, “I would be happy if I could make a living from becoming an actor for some reason. I really believe in Rob -from Season 1 -I started talking with me:” What else do you want to do if you are interested in writing and producing? By the way, I realized that it was another way to bend this motivation that I had to be a storyteller. I am very surprised that the rush gained from stepping on the set as a director is exactly the same as the rush from stepping into the stage as an actor. So, yeah, I want more opportunities to do such a job.
