![]() ![]() So I guess putting something out is okay.” What he’s putting out has that newly relevant pandemic layer, its echo of our endlessly repeating days. ![]() “I'm going through all the same stuff,” he’d realized, “and at night I want to watch stuff. “You know, the world was kind of fucked up before, and it's still fucked up, and we were doing press before, and making movies,” he says. But Samberg had Palm Springs to promote, as both star and producer, and had brought himself around on the idea. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, his sitcom about an affable band of detectives, had been pulled into the national debate around policing sparked by Floyd’s death, as audiences and networks alike began to rethink the merits of shows about benevolent cops. “It's weird to be doing press again at all,” he says, “thinking about saying anything about the world other than COVID or the protests and everything, and George Floyd.” This wasn’t an idle gripe. Along the way, they consider the horror-or is it joy?-of eternal cohabitation.įor better or worse, the circumstances of quarantine have led couples everywhere to confront a similar question: what happens to a relationship when every day is the same? Samberg, joyfully boyish at 41 in ballcap and Studio Ghibli tee, opens the first of our two Zoom calls with an admission. Together, and with more than a few Lonely Island-style hijinks, they try to escape their time-loop. One of the big questions posed by Palm Springs, Andy Samberg’s new wedding-goes- Groundhog Day romantic comedy, is also a timely thought experiment: If you had to spend the rest of eternity stuck in a single day with a single other person, would that be hell? Or, if you were lucky enough to be stuck there with the right person, might desert-oasis purgatory in fact be a kind of heaven? The film picks up after Samberg’s Nyles has re-lived the same hipstery Palm Springs wedding a million times, and right before he drags Cristin Milioti’s sister of the bride into his infinitely recurring marital nightmare. ![]()
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