Deschanel boards the “Physical” train as actress Kelly Kilmartin, who stars in the show-within-a-show “Trish Out of Water” — and acts as a foil, both real and imagined, for series protagonist, aerobics entrepreneur Sheila Rubin (Rose Byrne).“She’s in Sheila’s head, and the ‘imaginary Kelly’ is a character the real Kelly plays on ‘Trish Out of Water,'” said Deschanel.“[Kelly] is a Southern Belle who is forced to be a lifeguard on ‘Trish Out of Water,’ so that’s the character that’s haunting Sheila … to make her uncomfortable, to feel badly and sometimes to feel good,” she said. “She’s like the voice in your head that says, ‘You’re the best!/’You’re the worst!,'” she said. “So Sheila reacts in strange and weird ways.”Deschanel said it was fun playing two different iterations of Kelly.“The ‘real’ Kelly is kind of the embodiment of 1980s femininity,” she said. “She’s very calculated and there’s a lot of artifice that goes into making her.

She does all of this [the sitcom] because she thinks she has to do this to survive.“When I was a kid studying acting, and when I dreamed about being an actor, this is the kind of part I would dream about,” she said of Kelly. “It’s something I can really sink my teeth into.”Deschanel is five years removed from her run as Jess Day on “New Girl,” the popular Fox sitcom that aired from 2011-2018 with co-stars Jake Johnson (“Minx”), Max Greenfield (“The Neighborhood”), Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone.Since then, Deschanel has done some guest-starring turns and hosts her Max food series “What Am I Eating?” — but hasn’t acted in a regular series role until now.“I definitely needed a break after ‘New Girl’ ended.

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