Aubrey Plaza hasn’t watched ‘White Lotus,’ forgot her Max password

Stars, they’re just like us (sort of).

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Aubrey Plaza shared a relatable and amusing story about forgetting the password to her Max account. Unlike most of us, however, this lapse of memory has prevented her from watching her own Emmy-nominated performance. Yes, this story — much like many great TV shows and movies — asks you to suspend some disbelief.

Plaza, who originally gained fame on the sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” received critical acclaim for her role as the sharp-tongued employment lawyer Harper Spiller in Season 2 of Mike White’s “The White Lotus.” The second season of the dark comedy drama garnered 23 Emmy nominations, including one for Plaza as best supporting actress in a drama, and won in five categories.

Yet, despite this success, the 40-year-old actor dryly insists she hasn’t managed to watch her own performance.

“To be honest, I had trouble opening my HBO Max account when I was trying to watch it originally,” Plaza said. “I couldn’t figure out the password, and I usually just give up when I can’t figure out the passwords. I just can’t handle things like that.”

Jokingly, she added, “I’d love a DVD, but they don’t send DVD sets anymore. I ask them every time.”

Last year, Plaza recounted a similar episode in Vanity Fair when she struggled to stream Bravo’s “Top Chef.”

“[I] couldn’t figure out how to f— get Hulu+ Live. I give up! I can’t. I just can’t,” she shared, mentioning that she often ends up buying TV shows and movies on iTunes. “My husband will be like, ‘You literally can watch that for free on HBO Max.’”

Even if she did manage to overcome these technical challenges, Plaza admits she might still avoid watching her own work.

“Unless I’m producing something,” she said in Vanity Fair’s Scene Selection video series, “I generally don’t watch it.”

But the “Emily the Criminal” star doesn’t need to watch her own shows to feel a connection with her characters, Harper Spiller included.

“I found [Harper] very sympathetic. I really relate to her in a lot of ways. Because you know early on that she’s not really from this world of the ultra, ultra rich,” Plaza explained to The Times in 2022. “She’s our way into that world, in some ways.”

Source: Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The Times.