Judy Greer Q&A: I Started My Career With Super Sex

August 2024 · 5 minute read

Everyone’s favorite best friend Judy Greer (“Arrested Development,” “13 Going on 30,” “The Wedding Planner”) will return to network TV in the FX series “Married,” a frank and funny look at wedded life. She also recently published a memoir, aptly titled “I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star.”

The title of your book is so perfect; what do most people recognize you from?

Probably “Arrested Development” right now, but it changes depending on what’s on television. I was on one episode of “The Big Bang Theory” and it must play every day, because I see it so often. “13 Going on 30” is another big one.

You’ve really embraced the “best friend” label. 

Well, it’s been really good to me. And I don’t feel like I’m the best friend anymore; I feel I sort of graduated to the wife-mother. I think for awhile, I was the weepy wife-mother, but now I’m graduating to cool, strong wife-mothers.

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Was it awkward when it came to the sex scenes on “Married” with Nat Faxon, who plays your husband?

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Not really. There’s one scene we shot where we’re having super sex and it was a bit uncomfortable. There’s a lot of joking, which helps take the weirdness away. Sometimes you have to let go of how totally weird it is with someone you don’t know in front of a lot of strangers.

What’s super sex?

Where you’re really, really having intense sex. It’s a strange thing to do. I did it in “Three Kings,” but it’s been a long time. So I started my career with super sex. Hopefully it’s not going to end with super sex. Or, actually, maybe that’s a great way to go out.

You play an ape in “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.” What drew you to the role? 

I thought it would be fun to be part of a big franchise movie. I really wanted to work with Andy Serkis, and I was intrigued by motion capture. But the biggest reason I did it is because my husband is a huge “Planet of the Apes” fan. When he knew there was going to be a sequel, he was like, “You have to be in it, and you have to play an ape.” So my number one reason for doing it was to make my husband happy.

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