Nick Kroll genuinely does not know what character he's playing in this Smurfs movie
You can watch the panic enter Kroll's eyes as he's asked the hard-hitting question, "Which Smurf are you?"
Nick Kroll, Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix
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As far as “Gotcha!” questions go, “Which Smurf are you?” probably wasn’t intended to be one. And yet, that seems to be exactly how it hit (probable) Smurfs star Nick Kroll when he got asked about his role in the upcoming animated movie on the red carpet this week. It’s genuinely fascinating to observe: You can watch Kroll run through basically every trick in his comedic arsenal to distract or deflect away from the question (at one point, he claims to have written all of Rihanna’s new music for the movie), but Variety‘s Mark Malkin is relentless. Finally, the dam breaks. “I don’t know the character’s name,” Kroll admits with a slightly ashamed laugh. “I genuinely do not know.”