A few years ago, while he was playing a villain in the Kristen Stewart thriller Love Lies Bleeding, Dave Franco was fitted for a facial prosthetic. It was essentially a melange of sinews and smashed teeth, from which a meaty flap of torn-off jaw dangled precariously. “I was horrified by it in the best possible way,” Franco beams. He sensed his wife would love it, too.
Alison Brie, the ebullient star of Mad Men and Glow, very much did. “I was like, ‘Yes, babe! Get it!’”, she says, recounting this lovely tale today alongside Franco in a London hotel suite. “The gorier the better!” This, they quickly assure me, is a mutual quirk for the two of them: Franco is equally as adoring of Brie’s onscreen fatalities. “Alison dies in Scream 4 and that’s like a badge of honour to me. Like, my wife got killed by Ghostface – I’m so proud of her!”
