Scrubs is educating us all to count on the sudden, and within the case of Episode 4, “My Poker Face,” meaning a visitor star like comic Matt Rife.
**Spoiler alert for the latest episode of Scrubs, now streaming on Hulu**
In the most recent episode of the ABC revival, Rife — who has made a reputation for himself on the earth of stand-up comedy and crowd work — visitor stars as a affected person of Dr. Tosh (Ava Bunn) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) who’s experiencing odd signs because of his fad “Tarzan Diet.” Bunn says working with the visitor star was a dream come true, particularly as somebody who additionally comes from the world of stage comedy.
“I was very excited to work with him and he was very, very lovely, dare I say, even more lovely than I could have ever expected. He’s awesome,” Bunn instructed DECIDER in an interview tied to the brand new episode. “We both come from the live comedy world, we did a lot of improv, and any time a line didn’t feel right in between scenes, we would be like, ‘Okay, wait, what if we said something more like this?’”
Bunn, who performs a social-media obsessed medical intern finding out beneath J.D. (Zach Braff) at Sacred Heart, even set to work on her improv expertise with Rife, joking about their characters’ mutual love of TikTook. In one scene, the 2 characters snigger as they swap handles to comply with one another, a lot to the annoyance of Elliot.
“There’s a scene where we’re looking at each other’s phones, and we were kind of ad-libbing at the beginning. I don’t know how much of it actually made the cut, but it was just fun. We had good banter and I felt like everything flowed very naturally. And the director, Randall [Keenan Winston], thankfully, let us play throughout that.”
As for Elliot’s response to her intern getting chummy with their ill-informed and actually in poor health affected person, Bunn tells DECIDER that she had the most effective time enjoying a notice of animosity with Chalke, who will get fairly stern in-character in Episode 4. At one level, Elliot even tells Tosh that she’s having a tough time taking her severely as a health care provider, which causes Bunn’s character to have to cover her telephone utilization.
What Elliot didn’t know and couldn’t see was Sam utilizing her telephone to research their affected person’s troubling social media posts, which led her to diagnose him with an consuming dysfunction referred to as “orthorexia nervosa,” a.ok.a. a medical obsession with wholesome meals and restrictive consuming. It’s the sort of catch that makes Elliot need to eat her phrases and apologize to Bunn’s character for misjudging her. Thankfully, that friction between them solely occurred on-screen.
“Something I love about Sarah is just before every scene, we’d rehearse it a ton, but then, in between rehearsing, she’d be like, ‘Oh my God, did I tell you this story?’ And then we’re talking about whatever happened over the weekend… I’m in awe of Sarah, Zach and Donald [Faison] because they’ve been doing this for so long that they can do that with each other, and watching them switch into character is so crazy,” she shared.
Bunn added, “Anytime we had like a serious moment where we’re butting heads, afterwards we’re immediately like, ‘Okay, anyways, so I was saying,’ … It was an absolute honor. Sarah is such a legend to me. So the fact that I get to be in so many scenes with her felt just like such a cool opportunity.”
Bunn says she’s additionally taken so many classes away from her scenes with Chalke and her time on set in, studying to reap the benefits of each second and by no means take something with no consideration.
“She always just comes in so happy and positive, and she’s a very good role model for me, for both professionally and personally, because there’s never a day that she takes it for granted,” she mentioned, “Every single day, like, ‘I’m the luckiest woman in the world. I have the best job ever and the best friends ever.’ She just gives a very good vibe out to the room.”
How To Watch Scrubs
The first 4 episodes of Scrubs at the moment are streaming on Hulu and Disney+. New episodes of Scrubs air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. native and stream the following day.
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