Rob Delaney breaks down his favorite ‘Dying for Sex’ scenes

Rob Delaney is cool just being a neighboring guy.

“I don’t think too much” Die for sex The actor says Weekly entertainment. “It becomes funnier because it is a very important part of history, but he remains the neighboring guy.”

Die for sex The last chapter of Molly Kochan (Michelle Williams) follows. After being in remission, Molly discovers that her cancer is back – And this time, it’s incurable. By taking her life in hand, she comes out of her unhappy marriage, asks her best friend, Nikki Boyer (Jenny Slate), to be her goalkeeper and decides to explore her sexuality. Part of this exploration implies his neighbor, played by Delaney, and the two pass from contempt in the development of a deep link.

The out -of -competition limited series is known for its impeccable balance of high level humor and deep sadness, and that includes Delaney’s performance. We talked to the actor of his favorite scenes, one who is funny and the other an emotional and vulnerable moment between him and Molly de Williams.

Nikki and the neighbor’s guy are held in the rain

Towards the end of the series, Molly returns Nikki to her apartment to collect everything she needs in her hospital bed, including the neighbor. The rare scene between the two pillars of Molly’s life offered sincere emotional rhythms and a great physical comedy. They rush to go to the hospital, but go out to see Nikki’s car getting towed. Without forgetting, everything happens in the pouring rain.

The neighbor Guy does everything he can to prevent the officer from taking the car, including climbing. “There was a lot of physical comedy and it was really fun,” he says. “They added rain so that it could be more visible for the camera, so we are soaked. I jump on a car and threaten the traffic officer. I did not succeed.”

Delaney attributes to creators Kim Rosenstock and Elizabeth Meriwether with incredible writing, but likes the way this scene allowed the actors to play. “It was quite liberating and fun to shoot,” he says. Working with the pouring rain and understanding how he got up on the car had to be understood during the day. “You owe time to get to the right place to do the funny thing,” he said about how lines and physical comedy work together.

The actor, known for his comic roles in projects Disaster and the dead Pool Series of films, knows how powerful physicality is in narration. Calling our “animal and raw” body, Delaney uses the body to make people laugh in the same way as an intelligently written joke.

“We think we are so intelligent with our big stupid frontal lobes and our words will be the way we unlock people’s laughter, but, I mean, there is a reason why people like the three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton,” he adds.

Before going out in the rain, however, the characters struck an important emotional rhythm. Nikki fights with her sister about choosing to be there for Molly, a decision that also provoked the end of her relationship, but it is a neighbor’s guy who reminds her that what she does for her best friend is incredible.

“”[He] is consciously, verbally grateful for everything Nikki does for Molly, “he says,” they both understand that the other fulfills a very necessary role [for Molly]. There is real respect there, if not an organic and inevitable friendship. »»

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Molly and the neighbor say goodbye

“I will never forget the time of Molly and the neighbor to the hospital,” explains Delaney about the couple’s final scene.

Molly spends one last night with a neighboring guy in her hospital room, who is far from where they started. “They are bored as cohabitants of the same corridor. He is like graphically offensive for her with her catering noises and her nature and he considers her just as boring,” he said about the place where viewers meet them. To be loved in this hospital bed testifies to their trip.

“There is just such a playful, tenderness and a fall of love in this scene,” says Delaney, “you realize that their relationship could go a little further if Molly did not die.”

Located in the “sacred environment” of the Molly hospital room, the pair shares their love for each other. “Yes, physically, but more important than that, their communication is much deeper. It is almost as if she was loading her battery for a long life after Molly with all the special things that she learns and absorbing while she is preparing to die,” he said.

A matter with your neighbor could be considered a bad idea, but for these two, it enriches their lives. Molly finds someone who accepts the harsh realities of her diagnosis and always chooses to join her for everything that is ahead. In a similar vein, the neighbor’s guy begins to see how much he does not kiss what life has to offer through his vigor to live fully in his last chapter.

The dynamics work because Williams and Delaney are fully committed to bringing to life to the robust and complex dynamics. They needed to trust themselves to be incredibly vulnerable in this hospital bed, as much as when their characters explored different folds.

“I feel really lucky because Michelle and I have heard quite quickly,” he said. “I could not have asked for a better or more generous stage partner.

Developing this confidence in their work was useful during the emotional final scene. “We spent a little time in this hospital room to talk about our goals for this and what we thought to say,” he shares, looking back.

The intimacy they develop is proof of how physicality can lead to deeper intimacy – the very heart of the relational evolution of Molly and the neighbor. Viewers can see the impact of how Molly considers the world in the way they both open. “It is much easier for people to go home from a bar with someone they meet and have sex than admitting something from the heart you might not have thought you would say,” observes Delaney.

Ahead

Delaney hopes that neighbor Guy will continue to flourish after his visit with Molly. “Molly dies, which is terrible and it hurts her a lot, but she really gave him remarkable gifts. Their relationship ended in a physical sense, but it will continue to affect it, and it is a beautiful thing, “he says.

As for what the actor is moving away – it is an important reminder on our friends. “What I observed between Molly and Nikki is the beauty of friendship in adulthood, and how important it is,” he explains. “Love your friends. Tell them you love them, help them, accept help from them and maintain them because these relationships can save your life.”