Long before she guest starred as the love interest of rapper Lil Dicky aka Dave Burd’s on FX’s comedy series “Dave,” Chloe Bennet was a television mainstay — first on seven episodes of “Nashville,”…
was a television mainstay — first on seven episodes of “Nashville,” then another 136 of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..” Those experiences taught her a lot that she applied to Robyn, a photographer who ventures tentatively into a romantic relationship with Burd, a musician and performer who frequently blurs the lines between his professional ambitions and personal instincts.
I think that transferred into Robyn. In my mind, she’s going, “So, I truly value you for who you are in all of your flaws or neuroses or quirks that other people might see and think are not as ideal.” But, I think where Robyn draws a line is, “I need to be valued still.” What I love about this season and what I love about their story is it really highlights this specific relationship, or type of relationships, that I think are more common now in society.
From the beginning, I was determined, if I was going to do the show, to not make Robyn an overly prescribed female love interest. I wanted to make sure, with what little scenes I had in this season, that some narrative was pushed forward, that we got a little essence of something else. That something else, for me, was building out her life and understanding where this person would draw the line. There were a lot of scenes that did get cut.
I never ever played it literal: “Rachel McAdams is coming in.” It was always more of an abstract thing, rather than the literal, like you said, immediate threat of someone like Rachel McAdams. I think Robyn is smarter than that, I guess, or more aware of him as a person, which speaks to her understanding of his neuroses — like, “if you have this insecurity around masculinity, of course a sex doll feels safe,” rather than being like, “that’s just weird.
I am going to answer this strategically, and honestly, as I can. “Dave” feels like an extreme version of journaling, or something. Obviously, he’s pulling from very real-life circumstances. As someone who’s been friends with him for a while, I would be lying if I didn’t say it didn’t enter a state of extreme meta-fucking-inception at certain points where you’re going, “Wow. OK.
I think so. I know so. This is the kind of thing that will take years for him to digest. He’s deep in the sauce of creating the show and getting these episodes out for everyone. I’m really, really excited for him personally, as his friend, to take space from this, in my opinion, masterpiece of self-expression, so he can really unpack it for himself, not as Lil Dicky, not as Dave the character, but as Dave. I think that’s important for all artists to do.
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