Serious

An exchange from the New York Times Magazine earlier this month, in an interview with actor Aubrey Plaza:

Can your friends or family tell when you’re being genuine with them?

Sometimes. I think it’s just the tone of my voice that throws people off.

Zooey Deschanel recently told me, “Everything that you say to someone sounds like you’re mocking them.”

I was like, “But I’m not.”

And she was like, “Even when you just said that, it sounded like you were mocking me.”

Years ago I would not have believed in the existence of people named Zooey Deschanel and Aubrey Plaza.