In an interview with Delaware Online/The News Journal in August prior to the release of “Little Demon,” Plaza explained how the year came together: “I think there was a slight pandemic backup for me. I pretty much worked for two years back to back, and after nonstop productions, now everything’s coming to a head.”
The result has been Plaza just about everywhere you look recently, even as she’s (mostly) holed up in Atlanta working on her next project, co-starring in legendary director Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating science fiction epic “Megalopolis.” The all-star cast also includes Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Shia LaBeouf and Dustin Hoffman.
“I was a creepy stalker and now I’m going to host it, so my master plan worked,” she told the late-night host.
Even before 2021, Plaza was becoming a household name. Just look at Delaware Online/The News Journal’s 2018 poll to determine the most famous Delawarean, in which she beat out then-former Vice President Joe Biden.
There are plenty of reasons why Delaware loves Plaza: She never forgot where she came from, even if she lives in Los Angeles with filmmaker husband Jeff Baena. She always has proudly represented the First State.
She name-dropped the state in her first major film (Judd Apatow’s “Funny People” in 2009) and comes back all the time to support local nonprofits such as the 4-H Club and the Wilmington Jaycees or to headline fundraisers for the Wilmington Drama League, where she got her start.
