‘Scrubs’ Star Ava Bunn Spills On Working With Episode 4 Guest Star Matt Rife: “Even More Lovely Than I Could Have Ever Expected”
scrubs is educating us all to anticipate the surprising, and within the case of Episode 4, “My Poker Face,” which means a visitor star like comic Matt Rife.
**Spoiler alert for the latest episode of scrubsnow streaming on Hulu**
In the newest episode of the ABC revival, Rife — who has made a reputation for himself on the planet of stand-up comedy and crowd work — visitor stars as a affected person of Dr. Tosh (Ava Bunn) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) who’s experiencing odd signs because of his fad “Tarzan Diet.” Bunn says working with the visitor star was a dream come true, particularly as somebody who additionally comes from the world of stage comedy.
“I was very excited to work with him and he was very, very lovely, dare I say, even more lovely than I could have ever expected. He’s awesome,” Bunn advised DECIDER in an interview tied to the brand new episode. “We both come from the live comedy world, we did a lot of improvisation, and any time a line didn’t feel right in between scenes, we would be like, ‘Okay, wait, what if we said something more like this?’”
Bunn, who performs a social-media obsessed medical intern finding out below JD (Zach Braff) at Sacred Heart, even started working on her improvisation expertise with Rife, joking about their characters’ mutual love of TikTook. In one scene, the 2 characters chuckle as they swap handles to observe one another, a lot to Elliot’s annoyance.
“There’s a scene the place we’re taking a look at one another’s telephones, and we have been form of ad-libbing originally. I do not know the way a lot of it really made the lower, but it surely was simply enjoyable. We had good banter and I felt like the whole lot flowed very naturally. And the director, Randall [Keenan Winston]fortunately, allow us to play all through that.”
As for Elliot’s response to her intern getting chummy with their ill-informed and actually ailing affected person, Bunn tells DECIDER that she had one of the best time enjoying a observe of animosity with Chalke, who will get fairly stern in-character in Episode 4. At one level, Elliot even tells Tosh that she’s having a tough time taking her significantly as a health care provider, which causes Bunn’s character to have to cover her telephone utilization.
What Elliot did not know and could not see was Sam utilizing his telephone to analyze his affected person’s troubling social media posts, which led her to diagnose him with an consuming dysfunction known as “orthorexia nervosa,” aka a medical obsession with wholesome meals and restrictive consuming. It’s the form of catch that makes Elliot must eat her phrases and apologize to Bunn’s character for misjudging her. Fortunately, that friction between them solely occurred on-screen.
“Something I love about Sarah is simply earlier than each scene, we might rehear it a ton, however then, in between rehearsing, she’d be like, ‘Oh my God, did I inform you this story?’ And then we’re speaking about no matter occurred over the weekend… I’m in awe of Sarah, Zach and Donald [Faison] as a result of they have been doing this for thus lengthy that they will do this with one another, and watching them change into character is so loopy,” she shared.
Bunn added, “Anytime we had like a serious moment where we’re butting heads, afterwards we’re immediately like, ‘Okay, anyways, so I was saying,’ … It was an absolute honor. Sarah is such a legend to me. So the fact that I get to be in so many scenes with her felt just like such a cool opportunity.”
Bunn says she’s additionally taken so many classes away from her scenes with Chalke and her time on set in, studying to make the most of each second and by no means take something without any consideration.
“She always just comes in so happy and positive, and she’s a very good role model for me, for both professionally and personally, because there’s never a day that she takes it for granted,” she stated, “Every single day, like, ‘I’m the luckiest girl on the planet. I have one of the best job ever and one of the best pals ever.’ “She just gives a very good vibe out to the room.”
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