{"id":69652,"date":"2015-03-05T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/?p=69652"},"modified":"2024-05-21T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:22:14","slug":"aisha-tyler-archer-interview-lana-productivity-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/interview\/aisha-tyler-archer-interview-lana-productivity-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Aisha Tyler Talks ‘Archer’, Finding Lana and Her Productivity Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aisha<\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler<\/strong> is back as Agent Lana Kane for FX’s hit animated comedy, Archer<\/em>. Now in its sixth season, Tyler said on a recent conference call with press that “the insanity is nigh” for Lana this year.
\nIn the Q & A below, she talks about the show, finally meeting her castmates, those Daily Show<\/em> rumors and how she is so darn productive.,
\nArcher airs on Thursdays at 10pm on FX<\/em><\/p>\n

We know that an episode is coming up where we finally get to meet \u201cLana\u2019s\u201d parents. Is there anything that you can tease about that a little bit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler<\/strong>: Well, if it hasn\u2019t already been in print we got some pretty amazing, well I didn\u2019t do anything I just showed up, but we got some pretty amazing actors to play my parents, CCH Pounder, who you guys know from a million things, including The Shield<\/em> and, gosh, she\u2019s on something fantastic right now that\u2019s not in my head and Keith David. I think we\u2019re going to find out a little bit more about \u201cLana\u2019s\u201d background and kind of see her as a child and see her formative years. This is going to be really fun. And also find out that her parents may not entirely approve of her line of work, so it should be interesting.<\/p>\n

As you know, a baby often smooths over all family differences, so I think that baby is going to [indiscernible] kind of either conflict and\/or resolution between Lana and her parents. And I think we get to meet \u201cArcher,\u201d too, which of course is going to be a good show.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re so busy all the time. How do you manage both your time and your energy and do you think \u201cLana\u201d is the same way or would she go, geez, calm down?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler<\/strong>: I\u2019ll answer the second part first. I actually strangely think \u201cLana\u201d is very much like me. She\u2019s just dedicated to excellence. She really wants to do a good job. Whenever they go on a mission, she\u2019s always read the mission dossier, she\u2019s always packed the proper equipment, she\u2019s always got her go bag. I think she just wants to be excellent in everything she does and so in that way I think we\u2019re probably very much alike. I don\u2019t get to carry around double holster automatic weapons in my daily life, but in that way I think we\u2019re pretty similar.<\/p>\n

How do I manage my time? Well, let me just say first of all that I realized probably in the last 18 months that I\u2019m probably a clinical workaholic. That\u2019s not entirely an enviable way to live your life. I\u2019m really only happy when I\u2019m punishingly busy and it\u2019s less about me being kind of work slutty and saying yes to everything and just needing to be constantly kind of mentally occupied.<\/p>\n

I love being engaged and I feel like the harder I push myself the better work I do. So, the way I manage my time is that I\u2019m an obsessive list maker and I get a lot of satisfaction in crossing things off of my list. I don\u2019t sleep very much and I work seven days a week. But I had a [indiscernible] in my Podcast once say how do you get everything done and I said, well, I get up in the morning and I start doing stuff until I\u2019m exhausted and drop to bed and then in the morning I get up and start doing stuff again.<\/p>\n

I really don\u2019t have some kind of elegant system or algorithmic workflow. I just am constantly executing and sometimes well, sometimes not so well, but I do believe in the power of industry. I come from a working class family and a dad who worked very hard and I just believe in the power of hard work. So, there\u2019s where that comes from I think.<\/p>\n

I had a non-Archer<\/em> question for you. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard that Jon Stewart is going to be leaving The Daily Show<\/em> and while you are, obviously, very busy I wrote up a list of five people who would be great replacements and you have a lot of experience in a wide variety of different mediums. You were actually tops on my list. Would that be something you\u2019d ever entertain, taking over on The Daily Show<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler:<\/strong> Well, first of all, thank you. That\u2019s really flattering. I really appreciate it. And Jon is, we\u2019re friendly and I think he\u2019s an incredible guy and has left some massive, like honking shoes to fill for whoever takes that seat over. Even though, actually Craig Kilborn hosted that show for a little bit, really Jon elevated it to such an extraordinary level and whoever follows him I think has got their work cut out for them.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a lot of buzz online about me taking over that and it\u2019s insanely flattering and very gratifying. I have three series on the air right now, so there\u2019s a logistical barrier to me taking that job in that I am contractually obligated to three other series, Archer, The Talk<\/em> and Whose Line Is It Anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n

So, that said, it\u2019s really flattering to be thought of in that way and if I was ever in a position to take that job, I would, of course, entertain it because it\u2019s such an influential, just a seminal show. It\u2019s been so instrumental in helping people develop a deeper and, what\u2019s the right word, a deeper and more robust sense of skepticism about American politics, but also I think it\u2019s [indiscernible].<\/p>\n

So, that show would both be an honor to host and, obviously, a big responsibility. At this point in my life I don\u2019t even have time to pee. I literally just save up all my pee and go on Saturday afternoons, which is, by the way, incredibly satisfying.<\/p>\n

Comic-Con Interview: Aisha Tyler & Amber Nash Talk \u2018Archer\u2019 (video)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the scope of Archer <\/em>you\u2019ve got a bunch of eccentrics and incompetents and \u201cLana\u201d is basically, as you said earlier, the focused one. Do you ever want the writers, though, to just give you something that\u2019s insane to match everybody else?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler<\/strong>: I think the insanity is nigh on Archer<\/em> for \u201cLana.\u201d That\u2019s about all I can tell you, but she\u2019s about to enter a world of reckless pain for in a few episodes, so I think that will be very fun. And I did kind of beg for this storyline, so I\u2019m really excited to see it coming to fruition.<\/p>\n

I think that \u201cLana\u201d is really, she\u2019s like a lot of professional people and especially, probably, a lot of professional women, but men as well. Actually I have a lot of guy friends that are like this, too, who are incredibly effective in their professional lives and just ape-sh** bananas in their personal lives.<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t have a really well, I would say, personal life. She doesn\u2019t make great decisions about the guys she\u2019s dated and I don\u2019t think she\u2019s a bad decision-maker. I think it\u2019s just more that she\u2019s drawn to danger and to recklessness in her personal life because she has to be so buttoned up professionally in her work life, otherwise she might get shot to death.<\/p>\n

Yes, she is kind of the straight man in a lot of ways, but she has to be somewhat nuts to have dated Archer and then also to have absconded with his sperm and made a baby with his genetic material. So, she\u2019s not entirely sewn tightly.<\/p>\n

Watching H. Jon Benjamin and yourself interacting with each other at last year\u2019s New York Comic-Con was basically a live version of Archer<\/em>. Did your relationship with him and the rest of the cast take a long time to develop or is it something that happened early on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler<\/strong>: That\u2019s such a good question. First of all, for those of you who don\u2019t know, we never record together as a cast. We never see each other when we\u2019re working on the show. Three of us, Chris Parnell and Judy [Greer]and I are in LA, and Lucky and Amber in Atlanta, and Jon and Jessica are in New York.<\/p>\n

We never interacted with each other. We never saw each other and Jon and I met right off the bat, I think maybe after we recorded Season 1 at TCA, Television Critics Association\u2019s winter event, but we really didn\u2019t know each other. It wasn\u2019t that the relationship was frosty; it wasn\u2019t. We didn\u2019t really have a chance to get to know each other until we started making more personal appearances as a cast.<\/p>\n

I think that the first time that we really got to hang out together as a cast might have been when we did a performance at Eugene Mirman\u2019s Comedy Festival in Brooklyn, and this was maybe in Season 2 or 3, but what\u2019s been lovely is \u2013 and we got to hang out at Comic-Con Season 2, which was also great, that might have been the first time we all got to spend time together \u2013 what\u2019s been really lovely is that because we don\u2019t spend that much time together as a cast, when we do get together it\u2019s just a kind of kitten pile in a basket of affection for each other.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t get a lot of time together. It\u2019s always very precious, everybody gets very drunk. There\u2019s a lot of hugging. It\u2019s really, really a fun group of people that are incredibly smart and talented and Jon and I have developed a king of strange \u201cLana\u201d and \u201cArcher\u201d ghost banter that has evolved over the season. I love his company and I think he\u2019s one of the funniest people that I know and we also just somehow have found a way to improv up these really weird scenarios.<\/p>\n

One year at New York Comic-Con week just got in this really prolonged argument. I know what it was about and it was just like a totally fake argument and I think we really alarmed the woman who was interviewing us. I think they\u2019re pretty incredible. Every once in a while we do Archer<\/em> Live! where we\u2019re all performing together on stage and that\u2019s just a bourbon soaked like love fest and always immediately goes off the rails.<\/p>\n

It did take us a while. It wasn\u2019t work. It was just that we didn\u2019t have a lot of face time as a cast and now we\u2019re always begging to spend time together and they\u2019re all pretty superlative people and as funny as their characters on the show only without all of the alcoholism and the nudity.<\/p>\n

Your vocal range for this season has just been stellar. In seasons past you\u2019ve always shown the stern and the somewhat sarcastic parts of \u201cLana\u2019s\u201d personality and with the baby you\u2019ve definitely brought on way more of a motherly, softer personality and it\u2019s interesting to see you kind of walk that thin line between the Lana that goes nuts over Sterling, but at the same time is a mother and is remembering that she has someone to care for.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Was that a challenge for you to kind of figure that out for \u201cLana?\u201d Did you have to do some personal research to be like, okay, this is how I would tackle these kind of themes even though I really maybe have never seen this dynamic of her before?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler<\/strong>: This is a really nice question and a lovely compliment, so thank you. I actually think that the softening of \u201cLana\u201d started to come at the end of Season, I want to say Season 4, but I might be wrong because I\u2019m sitting in my car and my brain doesn\u2019t work, when we did the Sealab episode and \u201cArcher\u201d sacrificed himself for \u201cLana.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think Adam [Reed] started to write more emotional material for \u201cLana.\u201d She wasn\u2019t always pissed at \u201cArcher.\u201d And because she wasn\u2019t always angry at him or angry at the situation I just had more to play with and more to do. What\u2019s been nice is as the relationships on the show have evolved and they\u2019ve deepened and they\u2019ve become more complex, we have more to do.<\/p>\n

And I think in a first or a second season of any show you\u2019re just trying to fire as many bullets as you can at a target as possible because we\u2019re a comedy and we\u2019re a half-hour comedy and we\u2019re a cartoon, it\u2019s just about dropping bombs, dropping 22 minutes of bombs. But as the show has evolved and people love the characters and they love the relationships we\u2019ve been able to add more complexity to those characters.<\/p>\n

So, I really feel like the moment where \u201cLana\u201d got softened was when she realized that \u201cArcher\u201d was willing to die for her at the end of that Sealab two-parter and that would have been, that was in Season 3. And then in Season 4 she decides to have a baby and then in Season 5 she\u2019s pregnant, so I just had more to do. I didn\u2019t have to do any research. Luckily I\u2019ve been acting for a very long time and the nice thing about Archer <\/em>is that there\u2019s nothing to do but the emotional work because there\u2019s no props and no wardrobe and no make-up and no marks to hit, so it\u2019s just about your interior life and trying to think and feel the things that your character thinks and feels.<\/p>\n

Again, even though it\u2019s a comedy and sometimes we\u2019re working at peak intensity, I always try to really work on \u201cLana\u2019s\u201d interior life and how she truly feels about her job, how she truly feels about her co-workers and how she really feels about \u201cArcher,\u201d which is that this is someone who she ultimately loves and loathes and who I think she has a lot of compassion for, she\u2019s the only one that probably sees his soft side and remember when he had cancer and she was really there for him. They\u2019re bonded in a way that we don\u2019t always give them credit for.<\/p>\n

I think they really love each other. I\u2019m always trying to play that truth even if the comedy is extreme, so it was just a joy. I do remember when we did the stuff where \u201cLana\u201d got to tell \u201cArcher\u201d about \u201cA.J.,\u201d that was at the end of Season 5, that was really fun to play and we did it a few times because the guys wanted it to be really, really tender and I think I did have to do a little bit of work to get to that really, really tender place. She had never been quite that soft and lovely towards \u201cArcher.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fun; it\u2019s just fun to have a variety instead of just always screaming \u201cArcher.\u201d If somebody did a mash-up or an [indiscernible] remix of me saying \u201cArcher,\u201d it would probably be 97 minutes long. I\u2019ve yelled at the guy so many times, so it\u2019s nice to have the diversity of emotional range now.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re on Whose Line Is It Anyway?<\/em> and I think a lot of us grew up on that show in the 90s and the 2000s, but is it a real struggle to kind of promote that and get the word out that you\u2019re on, that it\u2019s there? It\u2019s certainly not as high profile as it was back when it started.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler<\/strong>: It\u2019s on a different network, obviously. It was on ABC and now it\u2019s on CW and also between when it was on ABC and now the viewing landscape has become much more fragmented. There are more networks and more shows. That being said, it was the highest rated show that CW had debuted in three years when it premiered and it\u2019s a huge hit for them.<\/p>\n

So, it hasn\u2019t been hard to promote it at all because it\u2019s doing really well and every season they\u2019ve ordered more episodes. I think they ordered like 18 or 19 the first season and 22 the second season and this season we\u2019re at 26. So, it\u2019s doing very well for them. We\u2019re all really proud of it and it wins its time slot, so for them it\u2019s a very big hit. I don\u2019t kind of lament, I don\u2019t really think about it that way because it\u2019s been a hit for CW and it\u2019s been working great.<\/p>\n

Of course, it would be great to have more fans of the show find it, but I think they will as time goes by and the show is working very well for CW so in that way I\u2019m just super, super happy because it\u2019s getting great numbers for them, so I think it\u2019s only going to grow from here.<\/p>\n

Friends<\/em> just celebrated its 20th<\/sup> anniversary last year and you had a very memorable arc towards the end of the show. Do you have a favorite moment from your time on the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisha Tyler<\/strong>: Oh yes, let\u2019s see. It was an amazing experience. It\u2019s rare to be a guest on a show that\u2019s that big. I mean it was the biggest show on TV when I got to be on it and I was a fan before I got the job, so I knew exactly how special it was and how lucky I was. This might be in the bloopers, but there were a lot of really great moments, but I think the one that I love is when I\u2019m actually breaking up with \u201cRoss\u201d and I\u2019m about to kiss Greg Kinnear and there\u2019s just this moment when David Schwimmer is standing between us and he says, \u201cThis is making me a little uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the way he said that is so funny that we did that probably 30 times before we were able to not laugh. It was just the funniest, weirdest. They were all so incredible on that show and I learned so much from all of them, but David Schwimmer had this thing with these line readings that was just, he could just tweak a line and make it so funny just with inflection and tone and he\u2019s standing right between us and we\u2019re staring at each other\u2019s eyes and he\u2019s saying, \u201cThis is making me a little uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

We just could barely, we never really made it through the scene properly and you can probably see us laugh a little bit even in the scene that made it into the show. But the whole thing was incredible. The cast was incredibly kind to me. Guest stars had had a history of cracking up on that show because it was the biggest show on TV and everybody on it was so good at what they did that a lot of people would come on and get intimidated and kind of fall apart.<\/p>\n

They were really, really kind about making me feel welcome and just letting me know that I could ask any question or ask for help if I needed it and it was just an extraordinary time and I\u2019m still really good friends with a couple of the cast members and really great to say it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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