‘Laid’ Co-Stars Stephanie Hsu And Zosia Mamet Unpack Ruby And AJ’s ‘Love Story Of Chosen Family’

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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains light spoilers for Laid on Peacock. Peacock’s Laid, from executive producers and co-showrunners Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna presents quite a messy premise.

Stephanie Hsu’s main character Ruby, a professional party-coordinator, discovers, with the help of her best friend AJ (Zosia Mamet), that all the people she has ever had sex with are dying — in the order that she slept with them.

AJ helps Ruby set out on a quest to warn all her past partners of this mysterious phenomenon, which Ruby does not want to keep happening, and in the process, the two friends discover more about themselves.

Add innocent and sensitive Isaac (Tommy Martinez) and Ruby’s rough-around-the-edges ex-boyfriend Richie (Michael Angarano) to the mix, and comedic chaos ensues. “It’s a love story of chosen family, and when you’re looking for love in a romantic way, you’re actually also looking to bring someone into this idea of family,” Hsu said of Ruby and AJ’s friendship and how it stands apart from the romance aspect of the series. “I think female friendship is such a deep, deep, not even just extension of that, but a root system of that.” In the below interview with Deadline, Hsu and Mamet discussed the casting of one particular ex-boyfriend of Ruby’s (hint hint, he plays himself) as well as their dynamic’s arc in the show and also AJ’s love life. DEADLINE: Did both of you have any hand in the casting of Ruby’s many ex-boyfriends?