As I’m reading the book “Bojack Horseman: The Art Before the Horse”, I’m learning that the actors almost never record their lines together.
The show is amazing, the dialogues flow so beautifully, so it seems insane how the actors can convey such chemistry while recording alone in a booth.
Paul F Thompkins: “It’s the only chance we get to act opposite each other. So we really get to play those moments, those real sad, or angry moments with each other at those table reads. (…) I’m always seated across Alison Brie, and to be able to do those emotional scenes from their marriage in person like that - you know, even though she’s playing a human and I’m playing an anthropomorphic dog - to get to play that relationship, even just one time face-to-face, is always very exciting to me.”
Allison Brie: “We get to experience the scenes together, playing off of each other and getting a sense of what the other actors would be doing. So when it comes time to record alone in a booth later, we can recall how it felt to do the scenes together”
