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one to be laughing at themselves.
She is naturally suited for physical humor. Not only
is Plumb blessed with long limbs and a body capable
of gestural comedy, but she also has a unique perception
of physicality, as well as an internal awkwardness
that, she says, is often the source of her humor.
“I always think that I have these relationships with
inanimate objects, and I have since I was a little girl,”
she said. “Sometimes, I can tell how [a day of filming]
is going to be, by the way I interact with the objects
around me. And so to me they become real, they
become animated, they become like little people or
something, so there’s an imaginary element that goes
back to when I was a little girl.”
Plumb said that if she shows up to her studio and
had spilled coffee all over herself, then she knows
she’ll be funny that day.
Imperfection in general is at the core of her work,
and sometimes she kind of picks on ridiculous people
who seem the most perfect, and are furthest from it.
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Gallery with some of the paper wigs and costumes
used in it, takes aim at the fashion industry.
“With the fashion world it was obvious that there
was an outer layer; superficiality,” she said. “But
underneath, there’s just so much more going on. I
hate to generalize or anything, but the models I’ve
met, they look beautiful, but what’s behind it is broken
or hollow or sad or … repressed, you know. And a lot
of times in that world, people don’t want you to have
a smart idea. They just want you to stand there.”
But Plumb is, to a degree, cursed by great empathy.
Often that empathy is what is really behind her humor
– two people aware of one another’s situation, talking
about it with their movements, but not stating the obvious
with actual words.
The point is to take those interactions lightly, for
what they are, and not beat yourself up about it, she
said.
“There are so many times I know when I say something
to somebody and afterwards I’m like, ‘oh man,’
you feel so ashamed or something,” she said. “I
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guess I’d like for people to remember something that
they did and be able to laugh at that, instead of feeling
that guilt about making a mistake.” PJH
One of Plumb’s characters in her film “Paper
Collection.”
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