The Hilarious Thing You’re the Worst’s Aya Cash Does During Sex Scenes With Chris Geere Might Surprise You

It’s the show that people either love, hate, hate to love, or love to hate, but regardless, You’re the Worst has struck a chord with millennials who know just how complicated and utterly miserable dating (and life) can be. And that’s why Aya Cash, 33, and Chris Geere, 34, love playing their respective characters, Gretchen and Jimmy, on the FXX hit that premieres its second season tonight. At the recent TCA Summer Press Tour, we sat down with the hilarious duo to talk sex, love, and crazy-cool fun facts.

Glamour: What’s one fun fact about you both?

Chris Geere: I have 32 cousins! I haven’t met half of them though. I also had jet-white hair until I was 15 years old, and then it got darker and now it’s just blond. My drunken party trick is doing a phenomenal impression of a lion in a pint glass. I’ll do it for you later.

Aya Cash: My grandmother [Pauline Betz Addie] won Wimbledon in 1946. It’s the best thing about me. Sometimes I don’t trot it out until later in a friendship and be like, “Oh yeah, my grandma won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open four times”; my grandmother made me call her Champy her entire life because she didn’t want to be called Grandma. I didn’t know her name wasn’t Champy until she was 11. Champy for Champion. [Laughs] She was amazing.

Glamour: You’re both married in real life. When you were dating, what were your biggest concerns?

Chris: I didn’t want to lose my boyishness. I made it very clear to my then girlfriend/now wife, that “Now that we’re moving in together, I still want to see the boys every week! Is that alright?” She’s brilliant because, as with a child, she said, “Of course.” But then you throw marriage and a child into it, and everything changes. I think relationships—successful relationships—are about two people willing to compromise, even though they’ve never had to deal with that before.

Aya: I’ve been married for three years, and we’ve been together 10. I think commitment in general scared me. I never wanted to get married, I never believed in marriage. My parents have five marriages between them. So I thought, “Why would you ever do that?” But my husband said this great thing to me: “Look, even if we don’t make it, I would have wanted to have that experience with you, so let’s have the experience of getting married and being married.” It doesn’t mean that if we don’t feel like it we won’t be together. It’s a commitment to do everything in your power to stay together until it’s completely untenable. We may go through things where we may hate each other for months at a time, and you get through that, work on it, go to therapy, do whatever you need to do to fix it until it can’t be fixed. Passion is one thing, and love is another. You should have deep passion for someone when you first get together, but that passion turns into something else eventually. You should still want to rip his clothes off, but you also want to live your life! You can’t sustain that state of passion because otherwise you couldn’t do anything else. My husband is a better human than I am, and that’s what you should feel about your partner. That prevents me from ever wanting to do anything that would hurt him because I just trust him so implicitly as a human. He’s a good dude. I’ve dated some not good dudes. He’s a good dude.

Glamour: Switching gears, what will we see more of in season two?

Chris: When you live with someone, you discover more about them, and I discover something about her that I can’t deal with at all. Most of the time, the original Jimmy would have run away, but because he has feelings for her and wants it to work, he has to compromise.

Aya: There’s a lot of debauchery and a lot of one-upmanship and trying to sustain that state of wanting to f—k all the time, party all the time, everything’s amazing all the time. They’re going so hard at it, but you can’t sustain that state. They just keep going, and it’s a disaster.

Glamour: Aya, do you relate to Gretchen at all?

Aya: I feel like the person I was becoming at 16 might have ended up like Gretchen, but for whatever reason, I took a hard left! I’m so far from Gretchen, but I am incredibly blunt and sometimes I hurt people’s feelings without realizing. Of course, I would immediately apologize where she would be like, “Get over it!”

Glamour: Chris, how much of Jimmy’s cynicism do you think you share?

Chris: It’s gotten closer and closer as we do more. I have the smallest issues with things, and find myself turning into Jimmy and getting so frustrated with society.

Glamour: What’s something your characters have done that you would never do?

Chris: The stuff he does when he’s drunk and how he talks to people. It’s horrendous and embarrassing, and if I ever saw myself that drunk in real life… [Laughs].

Aya: Cocaine! [Laughs]

Glamour: How much will we see of your characters’ work lives in season two?

Chris: Half-way through, he finally comes up with a subject for the second novel, and it comes about in a hilarious way. We refer to something he wrote when he was 11 years old. He decides to take that subject and write about it later, and of course it’s probably not going to work.

Aya: You’ll see so much more of the rapper clients. There is a whole story line with them this year. It’s so fun. There is a rap feud. I would love to cross-over with Empire! Oh my God, Cookie, come be on You’re the Worst! [Laughs] She could pitch her client, and I could be the publicist! Make this happen!

Glamour: Who has a tougher time keeping a straight face in sex scenes?

Chris: Definitely me. I’m so aware of hurting her with my bony hips that I’m like, “Ahh!”

Aya: We’re both pretty silly. I try to make him laugh though. In the pilot, my pasties would say, “Hi, Mom!” or little things like that, because [sex scenes are] so not sexy. It sounds cliche, but it’s not sexy at all.

Glamour: What’s the most fun you’ve had in a scene?

Chris: The four of us doing Sunday Funday.

Aya: I love scenes with the four of us together. Sunday Funday, yeah. It was the hardest to shoot and also the most fun to shoot.

Glamour: Is You’re the Worst for people cynical about love?

Chris: No. This show is for anyone who has ever been in a relationship or wants to attempt a relationship. Shakespeare had a phrase in Midsummer’s Night Dream that “The course of true love never did run smooth.” I think this is that. Shakespeare in 2015!

Aya: I think it’s for people that think they’re cynical about love, but I actually feel like the people that say they’re cynical about love are the biggest romantics, which is kind of how I feel about Jimmy and Gretchen. The cynicism is hiding their soft-tailed, smooth underbellies!

Glamour: Describe each other in three words.

Chris: Aya is crazy, talented, hot.

Aya: Chris is earnest, honest, and hairy. [Laughs] No, he’s not hairy. He’s hot!

You’re the Worst‘s second season will premiere on FXX tonight, immediately following The League. And speaking of relationships (or lack thereof), see what happens when two exes meet face-to-face again.