Rachel Bloom belted her way to fame chasing a former flame in TV’s musical rom-com “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” but in her new movie, she’s the one being chased. Luckily, she can relate to both situations.
“For every time I was in love with a guy who didn’t love me, there was a guy who was in love with me that I didn’t pay attention to,” the 31-year-old tells The Post. “It’s this kind of never-ending cycle where no one gets what they want.”
In the stoner comedy “Most Likely to Murder” (available May 1 and DVD), Adam Pally’s character, Billy, definitely isn’t getting what he wants. Once a popular guy, Billy has nose-dived in life to the point of working as a bathroom attendant at a Vegas club. Returning to his Long Island hometown for Thanksgiving, he finds that he’s no longer revered, and when he witnesses what appears to be a murder across the street from his parents’ house, no one believes him. That includes his ex-girlfriend Kara (Bloom), with whom Billy would very much like to rekindle things.
Bloom calls “Most Likely to Murder” her first movie, yet she appeared in 2009’s “Bob vs. Society,” which was made while she was still in college. Bloom says she wasn’t paid for it and can’t remember even seeing it, so it doesn’t count. “Most Likely to Murder,” on the other hand, was directed and co-written by Dan Gregor, Bloom’s husband since 2015.
“He’s specific and passionate and has a high demand for things, but he’s not an a – – hole,” she says.
Raised in California’s Manhattan Beach, south of LA, Bloom headed east to New York University to study musical theater (she says she still craves pierogies from Veselka, the Ukrainian joint in the East Village). In New York, she took comedy classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade and joined a campus sketch group, which is where she met Gregor.
“I had dated other people in the comedy community … and I didn’t want to go down that road again,” Bloom says. “He was like, ‘Look, let’s just see what happens. We’ve liked each other for a long time.’ And he was right.”
Bloom first garnered attention online for her viral music videos, most notably 2010’s “F–k Me, Ray Bradbury,” in which she . That led to her co-creating “,” which premiered on the CW in 2015 and nabbed her a Golden Globe the following year. Bloom says the show will end after an upcoming fourth season, though the network hasn’t yet confirmed that.
“We always wanted to only do four seasons,” she says. “I’ve been re-watching some of Season 1, and we want things to come full circle.”
Next up, Bloom will voice a yet-to-be-announced character in “The Angry Birds Movie 2” (out September 2019), plus she has a deal for a book she still needs to write and is pondering a few movie ideas. Once her TV show wraps, she says, “sleep” and “a vacation” are also on the schedule.
“It’s kind of stepping into the great unknown,” she says.
