D’Arcy Carden on The Five-Star Weekend & Female Friendship | Women in Entertainment Podcast

Sometimes the breakthrough arrives after you stop insisting that your dream unfold exactly as planned.D’Arcy Carden joins the Women in Entertainment Podcast for a heartfelt and hilarious conversation about friendship, creative fulfillment, and building a life around the work you love. She takes listeners behind the scenes of The Five-Star Weekend, where an early Pictionary game helped Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny, Gemma Chan, Harlow Jane, and D’Arcy form a genuine connection that carried into their performances.D’Arcy also shares how the deeply supportive, female-led production gave her the safety to explore Brooke’s most vulnerable moments. Looking back on her career, she clarifies that she never planned to abandon acting. Instead, she began accepting that her childhood vision of television success might change, only for The Good Place to transform her career. She reflects on the emotional impact of playing Janet, the meaningful relationships viewers have formed with her work, and why improv remains one of the great loves of her life.Listen to learn:- How the Five-Star Weekend cast created authentic chemistry- Why support behind the camera strengthens vulnerable performances- What D’Arcy loves about playing women “on the verge”- How redefining success created space for new opportunities- Why improv teaches courage, presence, listening, and reactionThe Women in Entertainment Podcast presents thoughtful conversations with leaders across entertainment, from film and television to media and gaming, and everything in between, as we talk about what it takes to make your mark in the industry, lessons these incredible people have learned along the way, and how they have found their way in an ever-changing environment.With in-depth conversations and pre-submitted listener questions, each episode provides candid advice for navigating today’s entertainment industry, giving listeners an inside look at how key players got their start, and guidance for building the necessary toolkit to bring careers to life in film, TV, music, theater, graphics, writing, animation, and beyond.Listen on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/5AfPfPQ...Listen on Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast..Listen on Audible: ⁠https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a85..#DArcyCarden #TheFiveStarWeekend #TheGoodPlace #WomenInEntertainmentPodcast #WomenInComedy #FemaleFriendship #Improv #WomenInTelevisionThis episode is supported by Wrapbook, the all-in-one platform for production payroll, spend and accounting. Learn more here: http://wrapbook.com/wie