![]() ![]() As Detective Danner (Tiffany Hadish) narrows her investigation of who killed pop star Xavier (Dave Franco) down to gentle Aniq (Sam Richardson) and hothead Brett (Ike Barinholtz), Schwartz’s Yasper seems to fade into the background. Spoilers for The Afterparty finale, “Maggie,” below.īen Schwartz relishes playing the delightful goofball - most recently a schmoozy PR director and a beloved anthropomorphic hedgehog - but Apple TV+ whodunit The Afterparty subverts that typecasting. New episodes post every Thursday and Friday.Photo: Scott Kirkland/Picturegroup/Shutterstock Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or anywhere you download podcasts. Each week “Awards Circuit” features interviews with top film and TV talent and creatives discussions and debates about awards races and industry headlines and much, much more. Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast, produced by Michael Schneider, is your one-stop listen for lively conversations about the best in film and television. That’s just a taste of the raucous conversation between Haddish, Richardson and Schwartz in this edition. I’m not supposed to tell everybody but I bought a baby.” We’ve celebrated through text messages together. The cast remains close, and maintains an active text chain. And then the opportunity to work with everybody to do a scene with everybody was the best.” And I felt like it was an opportunity for me, especially with everything that was going on in the world at the time when we were shooting, to show a detective from my point of view and from my community. Because first of all, I don’t think anyone has seen me in that light. So when they hit me with this first script, I read it and I was like yeah. Haddish says the appeal of Lord and Miller brought her to the project. “Will Tiffany get the person? Is it Sam? Is it me? And so it was very exciting through that limelight that people were really obsessed with.” “People were emotionally invested,” Schwartz says. Each episode takes on a different kind of film genre, including a musical edition starring Schwartz as Yasper, who still aspires to a music carrer that never took off. Danner, who shows up and interrogates Xavier’s classmates one by one, starting with Aniq (Richardson), who becomes the primary suspect but is really there to reconnect to his high school crush Zoë (Chao). ![]() But when Xavier falls to his death, everyone there becomes a suspect in his murder. “The Afterparty,” from Chris Miller and Phil Lord, is a comedic murder mystery that takes place after a high school reunion, as pop star alum Xavier (Dave Franco) invites his former classmates to an afterparty at his mansion. Spoiler alert if you don’t know the ending to Season 1, as it is discussed heavily - as is whether that murderer will show up in Season 2.īut first, our Awards Circuit roundtable is back, and discussing the Emmy comedy and limited series categories and much more. Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast recently spoke with “The Afterparty” stars Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson and Ben Schwartz about shooting this very unique show. I think Walt was a great red herring, verybody had their theory that it was like kind of hidden right in plain sight, but like, but obvious enough so people would bite on to Walt. Adds Richardson: “I think a lot of Walt earlier, like right up until Walt’s episode. ![]()
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