Black Mirror's Joan Is Awful star on filming "gross" scene
Black Mirror season 6 spoilers follow.
Black Mirror has officially returned for its sixth season after four years away from our screens, kicking things off with an episode titled 'Joan Is Awful'.
The episode follows an ordinary woman named Joan (played by Schitt's Creek's Annie Murphy), who soon discovers that a global streaming service has adapted her life into a drama starring A-list actress Salma Hayek.
In one particularly wild scene, Joan decides to do something Salma would never dream of replicating onscreen: she breaks into a wedding ceremony while dressed as a cheerleader and defecates in front of the guests (yes, really!).
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Speaking to Metro about filming the "gross" scene, Murphy said: "So we got to that scene and I was just like, put me in coach. Like, this is my wheelhouse right here, s**ting in a church. I couldn’t be more excited about it and I could picture it."
The actress continued: "Charlie [Brooker] wrote it very vividly and so I can picture it and I knew it was going to be so much fun to shoot.
"The day that we actually got to shoot it, it was so much fun and we all reverted back to like, you know, 10 year old kids being like, this is gross, but we just cackled and cackled on that day."
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In a shocking twist, it's revealed that Salma has no control over what plays out and is forced to do whatever Joan does, so she and Kayla Lorette, who plays another version of Joan, both had to film the same scene as Murphy.
"Shooting it and then watching the Salma shoot it in her very Salma like Vanity Fair way, and then Kayla who played source Joan also shooting it…it was a really fun day in the life of Black Mirror acting," Murphy concluded.
Black Mirror airs on Netflix.
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