Watching Netflix’s 2024 smash hitNobody Wants This, it’s pretty hard not to fall for Justine Lupe. Yes, ostensibly the effervescent romcom is all about the love story between agnostic podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell) and progressive rabbi Noah (Adam Brody). But it’s Joanne’s acerbic younger sister Morgan, played by Lupe, who gets all the best lines (and the best outfits).
If things ever threaten to tiptoe into schmaltzy territory, Lupe is there to shatter it with her deadpan delivery and a weapons-grade eye-roll. “As someone who also does not have much of a filter as a person in the world, I feel Morgan,” the actor laughs. “It’s really fun playing someone who’s a bit unbridled.” She’s speaking over Zoom just after the show’s Los Angeles press conference, sleekly dressed in a brown blazer with impressively voluminous sleeves, and a sheet of blonde hair tucked behind her shoulders (until it breaks free when she becomes animated, punctuating her sentences with gestures).
