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Kathryn Hahn calls 'Agatha All Along' co-star Aubrey Plaza one of her "favorite actors on the planet"
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Kathryn Hahn calls 'Agatha All Along' co-star Aubrey Plaza one of her "favorite actors on the planet"

From the first episode of Agatha All Along, fans fell in love with the dynamic between Agatha and Rio, brought to life by Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza, who previously worked together on Parks and Recreation

In the season finale, Agatha decides to kiss Rio/Death and sacrifice herself to save Joe Locke's Billy Maximoff. The actress reflected on that scene in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, explaining, "I hadn’t really thought about it until we were there on the day. We were blessed enough to be able to do it in pretty chronological order, so there was so much track already set behind that moment when we got there. Agatha had been running for centuries away from this inevitability of death and this very toxic ex-lover — the love of her life who was also the worst thing for her."

She continued to share, "Whenever they would meet, they kept bringing each other lower and lower and lower, which is clearly not a high-vibrational relationship. So I think that kiss couldn’t have been planned [in the characters’ minds], but I think there was an inevitability to it. Agatha would be loath to say it was about the boy, but I think that, of course, was [part of Agatha’s decision]. She didn’t want that to happen again to another child that she cared about. She became very tender towards Billy, and I think that was her final way of ensuring his continued journey."

"I also think that Agatha didn’t know if it was going to be final. I think she knew it was happening, but she’s such a survivor and such a scrapper that [she thought] she would be able to squirrel her way back into his life in some way," Hahn commented. "That kiss is really bittersweet too. For Agatha, besides her child, that’s the love of her life. They’re each other’s most formidable barring partners. There’s nobody else that could charge them up or turn them on intellectually more than each other, so that’s why they can’t stay away from each other. It’s like this gravitational pull. So I think that’s what that kiss also felt like, now that I’m talking about it — it did feel like a magnet. There was an inevitability, but I think there was almost no choice. She just was pulled to her mouth."

As for reuniting on-screen with Plaza, she considers her one of her "favorite actors on the planet," adding, "She’s so extraordinary. I just trust her, so I knew that whatever we would bring to it was going to be really rich and juicy, and for some reason, we didn’t really talk about that [dynamic]. We kept it simmering. We would sit kind of far away from each other on set — not anything consciously, but we just kept it at a low broil because I certainly didn’t know where it would go, or how deep it would go. We would send each other pieces of music, poems and movies to watch that may or may not have had anything to do with them, but it definitely was in the stew when we finally got to do our scenes."

While it has not yet been confirmed if we will see Agatha again in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she is open to revisiting the ghost version of her role. "Oh, believe me, I’m lighting a candle at the altar all the time. I’m constantly burning a candle — a purple candle," she concluded.

Agatha All Along is streaming on Disney+. 

Sophia Soto

Sophia Soto is a writer and interviewer with a passion for all things entertainment. She is a Senior Reporter at The Nerds of Color and contributes to Yardbarker, Screensphere, Den of Geek, What to Watch, Nerdtropolis, and Temple of Geek. You can see her past work on Remezcla, Young Hollywood, Looper, Paste Magazine, Primetimer, Soundsphere, and Starry Constellation Magazine

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