ICYMI: In the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown, a box of PaperGirls comics resulted in AliWong & JasonMantzoukas joining Amazon's PrimeVideo series. / BrianKVaughan CliffChiang
\nPrime Video's Paper Girls began with the comic series by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang, and that series would lead to the casting of two important characters. In the midst of the early days of the pandemic, the friendship between Ali Wong and Jason Mantzoukas would lead to a box of comics becoming a bigger part of their lives than previously thought.\nPictured: Ali Wong as the adult version of Erin.
Source: Anjali Pinto\/Prime Video\nLearning that the older version of Erin in the comics needed casting, Wong reached out to read for the role she knew pretty well, thanks to Mantzoukas' gift. At first, there was some concern, with Wong saying, 'Before I read for it, Jason said to me, 'You know, they might have a hard time seeing you as Adult Erin because Adult Erin is a person whose dreams did not come true. Ali Wong, you are a person whose dreams all came true.
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