'The Good Place': Why Michael Schur Cast D'Arcy Carden On The Show

Several actors of different ages, ethnicities, genders, sizes and shapes auditioned for the role of Janet on NBC's "The Good Place." But when D'Arcy Carden showed up to try out for the role, series creator Michael Schur knew right away that he'd already found his Janet. "She made the robotic language that I had written for the dummy scene seemed like a real person was doing it," Schur told Vanity Fair of why he picked Carden to play the sentient database. "She found this weird humanity inside this robotic scene." Carden told Vulture last October that her "The Good Place" audition was unlike any audition she had done before.