Aubrey Plaza Says She Enjoyed ‘Harassing’ Adam Driver on ‘Megalopolis’ Set While in Her ‘Agatha’ Costume

Samantha Bergeson
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Despite Francis Ford Coppola criticizing Marvel’s influence on Hollywood, it was an MCU series that overlapped with his “Megalopolis.”

Aubrey Plaza, who plays character Wow Platinum in Coppola’s epic and also stars in upcoming “Agatha All Along” Disney+ series, told Deadline that she brought some Marvel shenanigans to the “Megalopolis” set. Both projects were filmed on the same lot in Atlanta, with their respective productions overlapping for two weeks.

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“I would literally go from one to the other and would put my Wow wig on and my Wow costume on. And then the next day, I would go to the ‘Agatha’ set and I’d be dressed as a warrior witch with a dagger and stuff. At one point, when I was dressed in the Marvel character, I snuck onto the ‘Megalopolis’ set and I started harassing Giancarlo Esposito and Adam [Driver] and everyone,” Plaza recalled. “It was absolutely insane behavior.”

Plaza credited Driver for allowing her to “play” in character — or rather, characters — between both projects.

“I loved working with him,” Plaza said of Driver. “I felt that we were on the same page instantly. And what I really loved about working with him was, he was like me, where he really likes to play. He likes to surprise you. He’s so prepared and so thoughtful about his work, but he’s also willing to throw it out the window and have a laugh and mess around. And I love to work with an actor that can do both at the same time. I think a lot of times, people lose their sense of spontaneity and playfulness when they take themselves so seriously. And there’s a really amazing confidence about someone that can be both. It’s everything I like about a scene partner.”

Plaza explained that Coppola had a “pretty relentless approach of shooting” the feature, and that she had to be “so immersed” on set.

“It’s an intense set when you know that Francis is behind the monitor and it’s your turn. Of course, there were moments that were just insane,” Plaza said. “I don’t want to speak for [Coppola], but it seems to me that he gathers a group of interesting, wild actors and then he tries to inspire them to play. We wrote scenes and we conducted ourselves like a theater troupe, me and Jon Voight and Shia [LaBeouf]. We were writing scenes and giving them to the script supervisor. And then she would give them to Francis and sometimes he would like it and put it in. But every day he wanted to play. He ran it like it was a theater camp. There were games all day, and we were in character the whole time.”

“Megalopolis” premiered at Cannes. Read the IndieWire review here.

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