TheShiva Babyco-star is thrilled to be a supporting player, but shes got big theater-kid ambitions.
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That was one of the last times she can recall being inside a temple.
Being Jewish in West L.A., my religion was watching comedy.
She imagined someday making a pilgrimage to the site of her awakening.
That was my dream, she says.
I wanted to be onSNLand just get to make a fool out of myself.
Gordon, 25, has yet to reach that particular holy land.
Seligman says she reached out to cast Gordon without an audition.
I never know what it means to have a Jewish sense of humor, but she does.
I think shes inherently got aCurb-like,Seinfeld-like sense of humor in her DNA.
Shes very quick, and sometimes speaks like a middle-aged woman.
If anyone wants to hire me, what a treat.
But shes adamant that she wasnt stage-mommed.
There was no grooming.
From the age of 3, Gordon performed alongside Platt in increasingly bizarre local theater productions.
Gordon often misdirected her raw natural charisma by turning every single scene into a playful seduction.
And Id be like, Oh,yeah, we can go.
What time do you want to go …together?
It would be like, No, thats your son.
She was the smartest, coolest person in the entire world.
I just wanted to be her.
But the school felt like a bad fit.
Gordon was really unhappy and stressed about the steep tuition.
She dropped out after two weeks.
She stayed in New York, started working as a hostess at Balthazar It was avibe.
The grossest men and took UCB and freestanding NYU courses in on-camera acting.
Up front, I seem more silly, and thats where I exist more naturally.
But it was fun to try something different; I love a drama, she says.
I was aHomelandHead in high school.
We love Carrie frantically typing.
In L.A., youre stuck in your mood, she explains.
In New York, you walk by someone and theyre like, projectile vomiting.
Youve got to move through whatever youve been feeling.
The girls that they cast in those kinds of parts, I dont look like at all.
Its played by me, with my saggy breasts.
She was finally finding an outlet for the flirty magnetism that once derailed her childhood Groundlings sketches.
Gordon doesnt understand, exactly, why shes been consistently cast as the Cool Girl Who Casually Does Drugs.
I was like, No, and they were like, Im so sorry.
Are you really sad all the time?
Do you think youre going to get a job soon if you havent booked a job in a while?
She was also delighted by the ragtag, seat-of-your-pants nature of making it.
It felt like being at camp or something, says Gordon.
It was just so fucking hot, and we were just all sweating our fucking asses off.
But it was so fun because no one had trailers.
I just want to work with people that are really passionate and arent jaded.
She makes everything her own, says Seligman.
Shes not a heady actor.
It rolls off of her so naturally.
Gordon has spent the past year, like many of us, doing very little in-person work.
I just love coming up with things for other people.
Even in a silent moment, walking by frame, she makes something out of it.
No role is too small for her.
I think Iamvery ambitious.
Im still, like, nervous to say that, she says.
There are unbelievable actresses who are my age.
There are always going to be better people for a job.
But if it happens to come to me what a treat.
