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Alison Brie & Lizzy Caplan star in Save the Date with Mark Webber, Martin Starr, and Geoffrey Arend; directed by Michael Mohan. Caplan also stars in Bachelorette with Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fischer.

Tell us about your respective characters in this film.
LC: I play Sarah and when you meet her she’s in a confused state. She’s moving in with her boyfriend of a few years and she’s really not so into the idea. When that falls apart, she starts a rebound relationship and as soon as it becomes more intimate, she pushes that away too and is faced with just a ton of terrible stuff happening.
AB: I play Beth, Sarah’s sister, who’s getting married. She’s in the midst of planning her wedding and is really not getting the support that she feels she needs from her sister or her fiancé and because of that she’s sort of pushing these characters away. She can come off as a very judgmental character but it comes from a good place—from a protective place.

What attracted you to these roles?
LC: It’s cheesy to say but I found it tremendously honest. I’m always been drawn to characters that are a little flawed. I just knew it would be a challenge to make this person not completely unlikable because some of the stuff that she does is fairly unlikable.
AB: I felt like they were very honest female characters and same goes for the men. They just felt like real people.

What other films are you excited to see at the festival this year?
AB: I saw Mark Webber’s other film, The End of Love, which is just amazing. He has, like, three films here. Meanwhile, Lizzy has two.
LC: He’s like the king of Sundance.
AB: And you’re the queen!

Is this your first time at Sundance?
AB: I’ve never been before for a film I worked on.
LC: Yeah, she just came for the swag.
AB: I did not! I came here with friends in college once.
LC: I was a here for a short film once, but this is totally different.

How do you dress for Sundance?
LC: Honestly, dressing comfy saves the day.
AB: Can you imagine having to do these hours in heels?
LC: I just wouldn’t come. I really wouldn’t.
AB: You need boots and a good coat—definitely.

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HDD – Luke Hickman: So how has all the media been?

Alison Brie: I love the movie and I forgot how fun it was going to be to talk about it. We haven’t been talking about it every day since we shot it – it’s not like we call each other on the weekend and talk about it. (laughs)

HDD: When did you shoot?

Alison Brie: Recently. Summer. Like the end of July.

HDD: Playing sisters, did you and Lizzy know each other before shooting the film?

Alison Brie: We did not. We got together and had dinner once before [shooting] and had one rehearsal. We did one sort of crash-course rehearsal with just the two of us and [the director] in a plain room, mapping it out. And I don’t even think we rehearsed every scene, just the key scenes – outside the bridal shop and outside the club in the beginning where Lizzy first gets proposed to. We talked through the dialog to make it our own. It was more about making sure that we were all on the same page about what was happening in a scene. It was more talking it out than reading it and working at it.

HDD: Well, it works really well. You two are great together.

Alison Brie: Thanks! And you saw [the movie]!

HDD: Of course I saw it!

Alison Brie: It was funny doing the interviews on the first two days when people were like, (in a low dumb manly voice) “Soooo, what’s it about?” Which is fine, just funny because people were asking us about something they knew nothing about.

HDD: You’ve seen the movie, right?

Alison Brie: Yeah!

HDD: I spoke with Mark Webber a few days ago about ‘The End of Love’ and we talked about him having three movies up here this year and he said he hadn’t seen one of the movies yet. I can’t remember if it was this one.

Alison Brie: It must be ‘For A Good Time, Call …’ because we had a “cast screening” [of 'Save the Date'].

HDD: And it’s a very funny movie!

Alison Brie: There were laughs in places where I didn’t expect them to be, like when it shows my character’s mom at the bridal shower. Everyone cracked up [at the premiere] and I thought, ‘That is kinda funny,’ but when we were in it, it seems to have more depth and to be more dramatic because we were just playing the reality of these scenes. We weren’t (in a vaudevillian voice) “playing it for comedy.” We weren’t bringing that (in a vaudevillian voice again) “comedy razzle dazzle.” (laughs)

HDD: I’ve got to ask – any word on the return of ‘Community?’

Alison Brie: Hmmm.

HDD: We need it back.

Alison Brie: Thank you! We’re still shooting episodes, so we’re finishing up the rest of the season. We have three more episodes to shoot and [NBC] keeps on saying vaguely, “It may come back in March or April.” It’s going to depend on what’s going on with other shows. They really want to air the rest of the season. We’re all feeling optimistic because it’s better to feel that way than – uhh – the other way. The fans have been really great about it. The flash mobs have been awesome -

HDD: – the beard pictures -

Alison Brie: – the beard pictures! People have been sending in a lot of letters to the network. It’s been really awesome. I feel like – I’ve never been prouder of our show than witnessing how it’s affected all these other people.

HDD: I interviewed Brit Marling about ‘Another Earth’ and she talked about how great it was to appear on ‘Community’ because the writers have had the freedom to do whatever they want.

Alison Brie: Yeah! They do! [Creator] Dan Harmon really fights for that. He’s got such integrity when it comes to his work. The network had been great to let us get away with a lot, but they also take a lot of prodding from Dan let him get the things that he want onto the show. [NBC] is such a great place for supporting really creative shows.

HDD: What else are you working on right now?

Alison Brie: I have a movie coming out in April called ‘The Five-Year Engagement’ with Jason Segal and Emily Blunt and Chris Platt.

HDD: I love that cast.

Alison Brie: Yeah! It’s another wedding movie. It’s all about wedding movies right now, it seems like. (goofy voice) Girls be getting married.

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Check out Alison’s interview with Ross Matthews talking about Save The Date at Bing Bar during Sundance Film Festival:

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Alison talks to MTV News at Sundance about Community and seeing herself return on Mad Men.

Greendale Community College’s doors might be closed at the moment, but that doesn’t mean class isn’t quietly in session inside.

Late last year, NBC pulled the critically acclaimed but criminally under-watched “Community” from its schedule, with a return date yet to be announced. Some fans were so outraged by the network’s decision that they staged a flash mob outside of NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters earlier this month, but to no avail — the show remains on the sidelines to this date.

Still, progress is being made on the “Community” set itself, at least. Actress Alison Brie, who stars in the series as the beautiful but quirky Annie Edison, told MTV News that work on the NBC comedy is ongoing despite the show’s disappearance from the network’s schedule.

“We’re still wrapping up ‘Community,’ our third season,” Brie told us at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where she was appearing in support of her new film “Save the Date.”

Asked about when the show might return, she claimed: “I don’t know! It’s in the air! It’s America’s biggest cliffhanger! I don’t know what’s going to happen, but we’re still shooting the third season, so hopefully it’s going to air in March or April.”

Meanwhile, if “Community” fans are looking for more Brie in their lives, they don’t need to tune into NBC. Chances are high that the actress will reprise her role as Pete Campbell’s wife, Trudy, on the upcoming season of AMC’s “Mad Men,” returning to airwaves for the first time in over a year on March 25.

“You may [see me in more 'Mad Men'],” Brie assured us about her probable return to the Emmy-winning drama, now entering its fifth season. “You should definitely tune into ‘Mad Men’ this season, because I hear it’s going to be very good.”

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Check out Crave Online`s interview with Alison at Sundance where she talks about Save The Date, Community, Mad Men and The Five-Year Engagement. She mentions she is in this season of Mad Men. Hopefully, we find out which episodes she will be appearing it when the new season premieres in March.

CraveOnline: What can a guy who just can’t get excited about gift bags do to show his fiancé love during wedding planning?

Alison Brie: Well, I was going to make a joke. The dirty joke that crossed my mind is inappropriate.

Say the joke. We’re CraveOnline, we can run it.

You know…

You were going to joke about sacks?

Yeah, it was going to be about sex.

No, specifically a man’s sack.

Oh, sack. I thought you said sex. Oh boy.

So after all that, make the joke.

No, no, the joke has come and gone. Pun intended.

Okay, so now the serious answer.

The serious answer, well, I just think it’s difficult. I am not married but I’ve been the maid of honor. I was in two weddings last year and it was interesting for me to see that disconnect. I think it’s natural that it ends up happening. I mean, it’s not natural I guess but it’s interesting. A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They’re planning something that’s the biggest event they’ll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it’s not totally the guy’s fault that he’s feeling disconnected from this person. I just think there is a way for guys to at least pretend like they care about the decision making process instead of totally checking out.

But not to fake interest, there must be a way to be genuinely excited and cooperate even if gift bags or other minutiae just aren’t your thing.

Yeah, I think on the other side of that, I think women are really good at pretending they like sports.

You aren’t into sports?

Hey, I can get into sports. I can get into it and actually enjoy it if the person I love enjoys it. Then I’m like, “All right, I’m on board, let’s do it.” So I think that it’s just about if a couple is connected and their communication lines are good, then that sort of thing shouldn’t be such a disconnect I guess.

Another interesting aspect of this is what if you want someone you love to feel something that just isn’t in their wheelhouse?

That’s a tough one because I think that you can’t really control anyone other than yourself, so you’re setting yourself up for disappointment when you’re trying to just always get something from someone that they’re not willing or capable of giving.
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Alison was on The Nerdist. The full appearance airs on Saturday on BBC America. Check out the sneak peek:

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n August, I caught up with Community star Alison Brie at NBC’s Television Critics Association party at The SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills — and while part of our chat was dedicated to her role on the beyond brilliant comedy (seriously people, why aren’t you watching?), the other half was spent talking about her role in the new movie, The Five-Year Engagement.

And since the trailer for the Jason Segel/Emily Blunt co-starring movie went live yesterday and Community’s final episode of 2011 (I’m praying that doesn’t turn into “final episode ever”) airing tonight, I thought it time to pull back the curtain on the chat!

TheInsider.com: How was the experience of making The Five-Year Engagement?
Alison Brie: It was incredible. It was so fun. Nick Stoller directed it and the group of us hit it off immediately, it felt like a vacation – except we were in Ann Arbor.

Insider: Hitting up lots of karaoke bars, as YouTube has revealed.
Alison: [laughs] That’s a testament to how much fun we were having. We were on a long streak of not getting caught, but then we got busted. Total Eclipse of the Heart is our jam. Although when I’m not with Emily, I’m a Lady Marmalade girl – but I don’t do the Christina Aguilera version, I get old school.

Insider: In the movie, you play Emily’s sister and adopt a British accent. How was that for you?
Alison: I think it went well, I’m nervous to see it. I had a great vocal coach here in LA for a few weeks but when I got out there, Emily became my unofficial vocal coach. It was more important that we sound alike than me studying a super proper British accent. The hardest part was that there was so much improv in the movie that the biggest challenge became thinking of an idea and process it through the accent quickly.

Insider: How much improv is in the movie?
Alison: We did a lot on set. Jason is incredible, Chris Pratt is a savant. Emily is so funny. I don’t think people realize how funny she is. It was a little intimidating, but because I felt so comfortable with everybody on set, it gave me more confidence. I had good days and bad days, overall, I think I did well.

Insider: You also star in Save The Date, where you play Lizzy Caplan’s sister.
Alison: I know, this was my summer of playing sisters to amazing brunette actresses. I kinda want to play Zooey Deschanel’s sister next.

Insider: Do a lot of people confuse you two?
Alison: No, I just really like her [laughs].

The Five-Year Engagement hits theaters on April 27, 2012

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Alison answers twitter questions backstage of The Late Night Show with Jimmy Fallon:

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