Amy Poehler: 'I’m into what Gen Z is selling - there are a lot of cool conversations'

The Moxie star talks about turning 50, the Parks & Rec reunion, and learning about young people's perspectives on set

Amy Poehler hosts at the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, February 28, 2021.

No matter the degree of mischievous glee or righteous anger, there’s always something comforting about Amy Poehler’s work, a sense that it comes from a place of empathy, of kindness. And even though its indignation runs pretty hot, her new Netflix movie Moxie is suffused with the same underlying sense of goodness.

Poehler directed and co-stars in the film, based on Jennifer Mathieu’s young-adult novel about high school students’ turbulent feminist awakening.