Inside ‘Emily the Criminal’ Star Aubrey Plaza’s Health Scare

On Black Bear, Aubrey played an actor in an emotionally and mentally abusive relationship with her director husband, played by Christopher Abbott. Aubrey explained that portraying her character’s “suffering” was hard to shake off when the cameras stopped rolling.

“I knew that if I decided to do this, that I was really gonna dive off the deep end,” Aubrey said in an interview with The Independent. “It was almost entirely night shoots, and having to pretend to be catastrophically drunk, crying, and hurling herself at walls (and people) for days on end took a toll.”