Salma Hayek and Annie Murphy discuss the many levels of “Joan Is Awful.”
It’s also one of the most “meta” episodes ofBlack Mirrorever.
So let’s break it down!
Ben Barnes and Salma Hayek in ‘Black Mirror.'.Netflix
“Joan Is Awful” operates on multiple levels of fictional reality.
This doesn’t sit well with the real Hayek, who is also a character in the episode.
“I had previously identifiedBlack Mirrorwith horror,” Hayek tells EW.
Annie Murphy on ‘Black Mirror’ season 6.Nick Wall/Netflix
It’s like, ‘oh my God, how do they see me?’
So that phone call was already like aBlack Mirrorepisode in itself.
But then I read it and I was laughing so much.
I was so excited to have an opportunity to make fun of myself and to work with Annie."
Hayek isn’t the only one playing herself in the episode.
So was Murphy, upon having to play a version of herself on screen for the first time.
“I started really overthinking it,” Murphy tells EW.
“I was really observing my own manner, like what my fingers do, and my intonation.
I started just driving myself bonkers.
So I just kind of had to relinquish that overthinking.”
“It was a lot to wrap the ol’ brain around,” Murphy continues.
“I think both of us kept having moments of being like, ‘wait, sorry… And asking Charlie questions.
One person who did get what was going on?
“Michael got the episode more than anyone else, maybe including Charlie,” Murphy says.
“My likeness has already been used on the internet in so many disrespectful ways,” Hayek says.
“It’s not even you, and they do horrible things with it.
But now it feels like we’re here!”
Can you spot them all?
