'The Good Place' Star D'Arcy Carden Admits She Had A Hard Time Playing Janet In The Beginning

D'Arcy Carden revealed that it took her a while before she finally figured out the perfect treatment for her "The Good Place" character, Janet. During a chat at the backstage of EW PopFest last weekend, Carden admitted that she struggled at first in portraying her Siri-like role on the NBC comedy series. "It was hard in the beginning because she's very non-judgmental and she doesn't have emotions; she's mimicking what a human would do, so there was a lot of pulling back on my part," the comedienne explained. "I was talking to [series co-creator] Michael Schur like'I don't know if I'm getting this [right], I don't know if I'm being the robot that you envisioned.'" Although Schur had a clear picture of what Janet should be like, Carden told Entertainment Weekly last month that the two-time Emmy winner let her play different versions of Janet until they figured out together who she really is as a character.