![]() I think the hardest part is if I saw anyone I worked with outside of work, I wouldn’t recognize them because everyone’s in a mask. The crew is getting tested, I believe, twice a week. They test zone A, which is the actors and the makeup artists-they test us three times a week. ![]() What sort of challenges are there that comes with filming a project during a pandemic? I know you’re filming something right now. ![]() I’m doing my first in-person signing event in a week or two and it’s going to be very trippy. I sometimes forget that I released a book just because I didn’t sign, sign, sign things. It’s almost like it takes place in a dream, where it’s not real. When everything takes place on the internet, there still is something and maybe it’s because I’m not Gen Z, there’s still something about stuff that takes place online. Instead, it was just, for the most part, a series of Zooms. That’s where all the budget was gonna kind of go. I was gonna be flying around to different cities. I was gonna be going on an eight-city book tour. Rachel Bloom: I’ve never done a book tour so I can’t compare it to anything else but it felt like a semi-book tour. What were the challenges that came with doing a virtual book tour instead of in-person? Vaccines were still being rolled out when the hardcover edition was released. It’s why I went with kind of a high concept approach because it can be something that’s so unfocused-organizing your life in categories. Rachel Bloom: I think organizing your thoughts, really, especially when it’s something like this that’s kind of autobiographical. What’s the hardest part about writing a book? I was like, Well, I’m just gonna ask people what questions they have and make it easy for myself. I was like, I don’t know what to add and then the kind of requests that I gleaned from people who read the book was they just wanted more about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Rachel Bloom: Well, honestly, my publisher was like, in books like this, people-a lot of times-like to add extra stuff. What went into the decision to add a new chapter to the book? I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are is now available in paperback and with a new chapter. Her memoir is now available in paperback–with a new chapter–through Grand Central Publishing. Rachel Bloom spoke with Solzy at the Movies about I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, mental health, improv, and more.
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