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Fran knows Annie better than she knows herself sometimes, and vice versa.
And while Annie and Frans friendship grew, so did Bryant and Adefopes.
Minor spoilers for the final season ofShrilllie ahead.
I havent seen much about the first time you guys met.
Was it throughShrillor before?Aidy Bryant:It was throughShrill.
Lolly Adefope:It was love at first sight.
Aidy Bryant:Yeah, it really was.
It was a little creepy.
I kind of knew about Lolly, though.
We had a mutual agent, so I had always been a fan.
I didnt think I was going to see you straight away.
Lolly Adefope:Wow.
Aidy Bryant:Romantic.
It was just so natural.
It really blossomed into something much bigger than just that summer-camp kind of friendship.
It was just like, I know we got it.
Its not going to be hard.
How often did you find yourselves improvising onShrill?
I dont know if that stayed in.
Aidy Bryant:[Laughs.]
That laid this foundation for most of our scenes where we use the script as a kind of blueprint.
Lets put it into our own words.
Looking back at past seasons, theFat Babe Pool Partywas a topShrillmoment from the minute it aired.
People bring it up to me all the time.
But really, those days were really intense.
I know Lolly and I were both kind of overwhelmed by that.
It was totally thrilling.
I do feel like that was where we got to bond together.
I want to feel that confident and share myself in that way.
I think for me that was whatShrillwas in a lot of ways.
Lolly Adefope:I feel like I had a similar thing with seeing Kanye West at Glastonbury.
Even though hes a man, its one more situation of a person being completely themselves.
It felt like we were at this wedding and the dancing and party scenes felt very euphoric.
I tried to draw on my own Nigerian heritage as well.
She makes it real easy to cry when she cries.
While they were setting up the cameras, we were like, Should we have music?
Eventually we settled on … What was the song?
Aidy Bryant:It was Britney Spearss Gimme More.
The one thats like, Its Britney, bitch!
Lolly Adefope:I dont know how they managed to set up huge speakers.
Aidy Bryant:Yeah, they absolutely blasted it so hard for us.
Also, it was like 30 degrees outside and we were all scantily clothed.
Long portions of one of us holding up an iPhone, so the music was playing.
Then all of us dancing in really long coats while it was raining.
I kept thinking like,Oh man, we should like pace ourselves.
It was the most fun ever, and were all four friends on top of it.
By now, we thought,We can do this.
Weve done this twice, and we can work through this.
Aidy Bryant:Definitely.
There was a huge trust and love and support with the crew as well.
That was part of why filming an episode like a girls night out was total wish fulfillment.
The seventh episode has flashback moments to when your characters first met.
Its very cute to see young Annie and young Fran.
And I mean, it killed me, like I cried forever.
Why did I think I could do that?
Aidy Bryant:I would trust you to cut mine, too.
I feel like weirdly I wouldnt hesitate to do that.
Is that the true mark of a good friendship?
Lolly Adefope:Yeah, I would trust you to pick a tattoo for me.
Aidy Bryant:I feel the same.
Im ready and willing.
That makes it sound like it died, but you know what I mean.
In a weird way, it just naturally happened that the show ends with them.
They [have this] next-level connection.
Its the guiding force of this show.
I really like how it ends on a quiet moment between you two.
It feels like a very realistic ending to me, very grounded and not overly cartoonishly triumphant.
