Quarantine was good to rapper-turned-actorDave Burd, a.k.a Lil Dicky.
Always the dreamer, Burd knows who he wants next.
“Taking it somewhere extreme with Obama would be spectacular,” he says of the former president.
Dave Burd on ‘Dave.'.Matthias Clamer/FX
“I wonder how far he’d go.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Have you finished shooting season 2 yet?
DAVE BURD:Yeah, we’re finished.
Hailey Bieber as herself, Benny Blanco as Benny, Kendall Jenner as herself, Elsie Hewitt as herself, and Dave Burd as Dave.Byron Cohen/FX
I’m sure a lot of it was social media.
Still to this day I have no concept of how it impacted my overall fame level, though.
I have no idea about that.
Dave Burd on ‘Dave.'.Byron Cohen/FX
There was a lot of that, and it shouldn’t make me as satisfied as it does.
Chris Rock called me.
He reached out just to praise me and tell me that he really loved the show.
GaTa and Dave Burd on ‘Dave’.Byron Cohen/FX
One of the most legendary comedians of all-time!
And also, my parents and friends loved it.
That meant a lot.
And I have friends who aren’t necessarily the biggest Lil Dicky fans but they love the show.
So it’s not just about famous people hitting me up.
Everything I’ve been doing since I kind of went for it has been building towards this moment.
How much easier was it get to people this year?
Like were they the ones begging you to come on this time around?
People took a leap of faith on me season 1.
Or at least a version of you as Dave.
It’s just different, even if the character is a more hyperbolized version of me.
Simply hearing me talk and my reasoning behind things.
No, but I feel like pop culture-wise I’m pretty sure I will be after this season.
But I couldn’t be less satisfied; just my priorities changed.
Now I’m so focused on like cinematography it’s like all I care about.
Now, I’m like, if this looks like a comedy, we’re failing.
This should look like a really great naturalistic foreign movie.
…I don’t know that.
That is what it seems like.
All of the great ones make a jump in season 2, even if they were already really good.
So there’s no world where you’re able to get worse in my opinion.
So having dealt with that in music, did you also feel any of that withDave?
But this year I kind of was.
Yes, and I would say just being a showrunner.
And I remember when I knew that was in my future, I had the thought of fear.
I was like, “Are we going to be f—-ed?”
Because he’s such a quarterback out there.
But I learned that I can play quarterback.
So I’m hungry as a rapper.
How would you describe season 2?
It’s more psychological and more emotional but still totally a comedy.
There might be a little more darkness to season 2 than season 1.
Do you like testing how far you guys can go at times?
But I do believe that comedy almost knows no bounds, to an extent.
But I believe in the art of the joke.
We’re focused on the whole cast.
it’s possible for you to’t have an emotional show when you only have emotions about one character.
Obviously the more you do something the better you’re going to be at it.
Yeah, I feel like I have improved.
Jeff told me that I took a step forward.
I’m not acting anything too dramatically different from myself that’s a totally different thing.
Having to act like myself on the show is something that comes very naturally to me.
I never like practice my lines, it’s never even a thing.
Since we talked earlier about all the big names showing up this season, who is your dream guest-star?
Taking it somewhere extreme with Obama would be spectacular.
[Laughs] I wonder how far he’d go.
And I think [Schaffer] just laughed and I didn’t follow-up.
Definitely a dream, for sure.
We’ve got to match up the LDs.
Either get me onCurbor get him on here.
One of the two has to happen.
What about me and GaTa with Larry and Leon?
That would be fireworks.
Davereturns Wednesday with back-to-back episodes on FXX.
