Alison Brie Says She RewatchedCommunityEpisodes Ahead of the Movie Sequel (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Alison Brie at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2025.Photo:Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Alison Brietook a walk down memory lane to prepare for one of her upcoming movie roles.

Ahead of the premiere for her new thriller,Together, at theSundance Film Festivalin Park City, Utah, the actress, 42, told PEOPLE she recently rewatched episodes ofCommunityin anticipation of filming the movie sequel to the hit comedy series.

“I was having a meeting with [series creator] Dan Harmon, and we were talking about theCommunitymovie and I wanted to rewatch some classic Annie episodes, so I did, and they were great,” she says, referring to her character Annie Edison, one of the students at the fictional community college where the show is set.

Brie first revealed back in August 2022 that there werebehind-the-scenes discussions taking placeto bringCommunity— which ran for six seasons from 2009 and 2015 — to the big screen. “There’s been movement,” she said on The Wrap’sUnWrappedpodcast at the time. “There’s been some talks. People are talking and certain things — wheels are turning.”

Alison Brie in a season 1 ‘Community’ episode.Mitchell Haaseth/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty

Mitchell Haaseth/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty

Brie’sCommunitycostar,Joel McHale, shared another update two years later, tellingGQin July 2024 that the movie “hasn’t been shot yet” — but “we have the money, and that’s a huge step.” He added, “And hopefully, people still want to see it. And Peacock’s paying for it. And so I can’t wait to do it. I’ll say vaguely next year. How about that?”

Anticipating how it would feel to have the cast back together again, theMasked Singerjudge, 55, added: “I think being on set experiencing that again [will be] so gratifying. Words can’t even express.”

Alison Brie and Dave Franco attend the ‘Together’ premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2025.Neilson Barnard/Getty

Neilson Barnard/Getty

While Brie is preparing to return to the Greendale Community Collegecampus, she is also busy promotingTogether, which costars her husband,Dave Franco. (The pair also served as co-producers.)

The actress told PEOPLE at Sundance that the couple’s “style of working” on projects like this is to completely immerse themselves while on set — but then switch completely into off mode once they are done.

“We allow it to be all-encompassing and then when we get home [after the movie wraps], we can chill out,” Brie explains. But when the work day ends amid production, she jokes, “we just lay in bed like vampires and sleep.”

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Togetheris showing at the Sundance Film Festival from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1.

source: people.com