“The People We Hate at the Wedding” gave fans a surprise mini-reunion of “The Good Place” with an unexpected appearance from D’Arcy Varden in the Kristen Bell-starring comedy. But according to Bell, there was no one else she wanted at the moment.
This happens much earlier in the film, now streaming on Prime Video, and all of a sudden. In the scene, Alice (Bell) is leaving a sultry note for her boss/boyfriend. She is expecting to leave her panties with the note but as she goes to take them off, a cleaning lady is seen watering the boss’s plants. Of course, that woman is none other than Darcy Warden. And he is not distracted by what is happening. Really, she just wants to help.
She jokes that the problem Alice is facing is that she accidentally put only one leg through her underwear when she put them on instead of both. Overall, it’s a hilarious encounter as the two women work together to get Bell’s underwear back safely, and one that fans are cheering. Plus, it was a “Good Place” reunion in more ways than one.
“I mean, she’s one of my favorite people. She’s one of my best friends,” Bell told TheWrap. “We have a very close relationship and our delicious director Claire Scanlon directed us both on ‘The Good Place’ and so we all knew each other. And when that scene came up, Claire texted me, ‘ What do you think of Darcy?’ And I think I replied with the word ‘duh’.
And if you suspected that the scene was largely improvised by the two actresses, you’d be correct. Bell confirmed that “a lot” was indeed coming off his and Warden’s cuffs.
“It just makes so much sense. There’s no one better than D’Arcy Warden to help me get my underwear back on,” Bell continued.
Bell, on the other hand, joked that she went out of her way to make sure she got to be Ben Platt’s sister for the film.
“I’ve wanted to be a Platt for a long time,” she admitted. “And all I had to do was obsess with Ben for, I don’t know, 10 years or so, and track down the projects he was involved with and see how I could lower my way down!”
You can watch TheWrap’s full interview with Bell and Platt in the video above.