(pop modern music)
- We have a talk show now?
- Yeah, this is our talk show. (camera crew laughing)
Talk show hosts usually get paid.
Wait a minute. (camera crew laughing)
- Ah, okay.
- I'm Linda Cardellini.
- You're Linda Cardellini.
- You are Christina Applegate.
- I'm Christina Applegate
and we are on a program called Dead To Me.
(intense rumbling)
- [Man] I am happy to see Jen and Judy here together.
What a nice surprise.
- Thank you. - Surprise.
- [Linda] I play Judy, and you play--
- Jen. - Jen.
- And we are best friends.
- And quite the comedy duo.
- That's right, that's right. (Christina laughing)
- Can I give you a hug?
- No.
- Do you think we should describe it as a comedy?
- Well, it's a darky-- - It's kind of a darky, drama.
- There's a lot of reasons-- - There's a lot of drama.
- There's a lot of trauma that has happened.
- Trauma drama.
Traumedy.
- It's a traumedy. - Yes.
(somber, piano music) (hands clap)
- I just can't imagine what you're going through.
- Well, it's like if Jeff got hit by a car
and died suddenly and violently.
Like that.
- Right.
(Christina and Linda chuckling)
♪ Welcome to our comedy ♪
- Welcome.
We both go through a lot in this show.
- Yeah, Jen's drowning and this person
that she wants nothing to do with
etches in and gives her some repose.
Gives her a deep breath that she can finally have.
- (voices) I am not broken.
- I am not broken. (voices chanting)
- [Linda] Judy is very complex.
She's a lover, and she's a giver.
And all she wants to do is make you happy.
- That makes me very uncomfortable.
- I know.
(Jen exhales) (bike wheels whirring)
But, now you play Jen.
She has a lot of grief.
She's a little bit angry.
- (chuckling) Just a smidge.
(glass smashing) ♪ (beep) bad ♪
♪ Drop dead ♪
♪ You make me sad ♪
- [Linda] How did you get ready for being Jen?
- For me, I didn't have a big plan,
because she's someone who does react almost like an animal.
- How dare you?
- [Christina] She doesn't know why she's reacting
the way she's reacting. (Car door slams)
(angry, intense music) ♪ Drop dead ♪
♪ You make me sad ♪
(push-button beeps) (Jen sobbing)
- I think Judy is pretty much the opposite.
I think everything she does has an intention behind it.
- Yes. - There's a thought behind it
because of so many things that have happened.
That she has a totally different way of operating.
I wish you didn't feel like that.
- But I do.
Because someone ripped my life apart.
(Christina choking)
(both laughing)
We're in a pool of our own despair.
- Right, tear, tear, tear, tear.
- And then Rich would be like,
"That was so funny, you guys."
And we're like, what? (Linda laughing)
I couldn't have done this shoot
if I didn't have you.
- I feel, right back at you.
That's really nice.
We do love each other.
- I'm getting misty eyed.
- This is good, you want us to cry, right?
(funky music)
- Okay. - Hello?
- So let's talk about other people on the show.
- Like, (bleep) talk them?
- Well, not on camera, right?
James Marsden is also in the show.
- Yes, he plays-- - He plays--
- A character. - A special part of our lives.
- [Linda] Yes.
- Everything all right out there?
- [Linda] Ed Asner plays a special
part of our lives. - Part of our lives.
- Maybe I am crazy.
- You are crazy, but who isn't?
- What the (bleep), huh? - Jen, please.
- I say (bleep) a lot.
- We do say the F word a lot.
- I say it in almost every line.
I want to know how the (bleep) this happened?
When the (bleep), why the (bleep),
what the (bleep, bleep),
and then I'm gonna tell her that he's dead.
- Okay, that sounds like a plan.
- And if I punch her, I (bleep) punch her.
(upbeat music)
- It's a lot of words. - A lot of--
- Bad words. - It's a lot of bad words.
See, don't you wanna watch that program?
- There's so many turns and twists in the show.
- [Jen] Oh my god.
(door banging) (car horn beeps)
(Jen yelling) (car whirring)
- [Christina] I was shocked when I'd read every episode.
I'd be like, what? - Yes.
- She did what? - Yes.
What do you think is the most shocking scene?
- The most shocking scene is the time
when James Marsden's (bleep) while he was in the middle
of that (bleep, bleep).
- Yeah, it was like--
- It's so insane. - I've never seen that on T.V.
- And then Celine Dion was like (bleep).
That seen was-- - Shocking.
- So shocking.
(both laughing) (upbeat, Jazz music)
- Please watch it.
That's desperate.
Watch it, if you feel-- - I mean--
- If you feel like it.
- Binge it, if you want.
- If you want, I think you should.
(upbeat, Jazz music)