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Aubrey Plaza Credits John Waters’ ‘Serial Mom’ for Inspiring Her Comedy Tastes: It Was the Funniest S**t I’ve Ever Seen’

Aubrey Plaza credited John Waters' 'Serial Mom' for inspiring her career before working with the auteur on 'Liarmouth.'

“John Waters blew my mind with ‘Serial Mom,'” she said, adding that working in a video store while in high school was how she “learned about independent films.” As announced in April 2024, Waters will write and direct the “feel-bad romance” centered on Plaza’s con-artist character Marsha Sprinkle. “When I did ‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’ which was my first starring role in a film, me and Mark Duplass have a moment in the grocery store and I asked the director [Colin Trevorrow], ‘Wouldn’t it be really good if I got one of the cans and as he’s walking away, I turn around like Whoopi and I throw him the can and he catches it and it’s a moment where you’re like “Oh, we have a thing”?’ I totally stole that from Whoopi Goldberg in ‘Corrina, Corrina.

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