Ashley Park Shares Meryl Streep Message That Still Makes Her Cry

Ashley Park received a special message from him There are only murders in the building her co-star Meryl Streep who still moves her today.

Appearing on the latest episode of his friend Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s show Dinner is on me podcast, Park recalled working with the screen icon on Season 3 of the hit dramedy as co-stars on the drama Death throes musical directed by Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), sharing the motivating note Streep left on a fake Playbill for the fake musical.

“You know, at the end of Broadway shows, when you leave a show, everybody signs your poster?” Park said. “It was a fake poster, inside there were ads or whatever. But I thought, ‘Oh, this would be fun. Let me do that.’ And everybody signed their name and I gave it to Meryl, and she signed it and gave it back to me. And it said, ‘I see you, Ash.’”

“She was like, ‘I really, really see you. You do,’” Park added. “It really made me realize, ‘Oh my God, anyone I interact with who admires me in that way, what a difference it makes.’ Even now, a year later, it makes me want to cry.”

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Park called Streep a “lovely” person, adding that when co-creator John Hoffman called her about the role and offered her a duet with Streep, she didn’t need any convincing to accept the project.

“I was like, ‘I’ll do anything. I don’t care,’” Park recalls, joking that she was also scared of being the season’s killer. “And then I said, ‘But please, because I’m such a scaredy-cat, if I’m the killer, will you tell me first? Because I’m so scared.’ He said, ‘You’re not.’ Because they don’t really tell anyone until the end.”

Park appeared in season 3 as Kimber Min, an actress from the Death throes musical comedy that features a duet of “Look for the Light,” an original song written by Sara Bareilles, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, with Loretta Durkin, played by Streep, another actress and Oliver’s love interest.

THE Emily in Paris And Car ride The series star isn’t reprising her role in the current season 4, but there are several fun new cast members added this season, as Oliver, Charles (Steve Martin) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) head to sunny Los Angeles to meet with Paramount for a film adaptation of their podcast: Molly Shannon, Eva Longoria, Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis and Kumail Nanjiani. Streep reprises her role as Loretta, who also finds herself in Hollywood this season after landing a role in Grey’s New Orleans: Burned Families Unit.