Aubrey Plaza
for 1883 Magazine || Spring 2019
photographed by Ramona Rosales.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do stand-up, it’s silent.
Favorite Photoshoots | Aubrey Plaza photographed by Jessica Haye & Clark Hsiao for Foam Magazine (2013)
I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think I’m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally I’m talking really slowly or there’s a lot of silence because there’s just nothing going on. I’m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like I’m in control.

I photographed Aubrey Plaza for this week’s issue of Time Magazine !
Photo: Signe Pierce
Assistants: Tayler Smith + Xan Violet
Location: Standard Hotel in Meatpacking District, NYC
The unknown is always kind of nerve-racking, but I’m excited to start a new chapter. I’m totally terrified, but I think that’s normal when you have no plan. But usually that’s when the most exciting stuff happens.
I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.