It's July 11, the night before SAG-AFTRA's last day of negotiating with the studios before the actors' union would decide to go on strike, and tensions are high in Hollywood. Tensions are also high in Glendale, where Anna Konkle has been wrongly accused of stinking up the restroom of Din Tai Fung.
Minutes earlier, she'd limped into the dumpling restaurant — "I'm Anna! I got a splinter!" — before heading to the toilet, and she swears all she did in there was tweeze the debris out of her foot.
"Someone — this is so rude of me — had explosive diarrhea. I was like, 'If that were me, I wouldn't want anyone to see my face,'" Konkle says, glancing around at the crowd surrounding us. To offer the troubled pooper some privacy, she didn't exit her stall until she heard them wash their hands and leave. But her politeness was her fatal mistake: "I walked out right after that person, and realized that the next people in line don't know if it's me or her.
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"This is right out of 'Pen15,'" Konkle says, rolling her eyes at herself, as usual.
"Pen15" is the semi-autobiographical Hulu series she co-created and starred in with her close friend Maya Erskine, in which they both played middle school versions of themselves surrounded by a cast of actual children.
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