Parks and Rec Star Retta Lives to Live Tweet

What’s the first information you consume in the morning?
It’s very vain, but I check my mentions on Twitter. Twitter is also where I get my news. If I get to sleep late, I’ll watch Live With Kelly and Michael. They have the most charmed lives. They get up in the morning, talk about what they did the night before, ask some not-so-hard-hitting questions of celebrities and then go home. I think it’s the most amazing job ever.

Your @unfoRETTAble Twitter handle is hilarious. When did you start tweeting?
I think I joined in ’09, but I didn’t really start using Twitter a lot until I was watching Season 3 of Breaking Bad on DVD. I started live-tweeting the show when I was watching it in my trailer because it made me feel less alone and scared. I’d be tweeting, “I’m really stressed out! They’re in his bedroom! He’s in the shower!” And people would tweet back, “You’ll be fine! It’s worth it!”

What else do you live-tweet now?
I do Scandal, True Blood, The Good Wife, The Walking Dead, sometimes The Mindy Project. I also did House of Cards, Sherlock and Orange Is the New Black, which I just finished over the Thanksgiving break. But it’s not really live-tweeting—I usually watch shows on DVR or DVD.

On the perils of Netflix shows…
Usually everybody watches them faster than I do. They day before I finished Orange Is the New Black, I was with a friend of mine, and she kept bringing up the show, and I was like, “Bitch, if you keep telling me things about this show…I’m not done!”

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