Everybody wants (more) Justine Lupe

Justine Lupe has a guiding principle for life, and it is this: Embrace the “goof.”“If you try and curate who you are too much, it’s unsustainable, and it makes life way less fun,” she says.“I have a dad who’s always been, like, goof-forward, and it brings me a lot of joy.

I feel like it’s just where my thermostat is set.” In her Zoom conversation with Alexa, the effervescent “Nobody Wants This” blonde radiated an unself-conscious sense of humor — a marked contrast to the intensity of her fan-favorite character, Morgan.At one point in our talk, her husband, visual artist Tyson Mason, even crept stealthily through the background, making her laugh and underscoring the couple’s humor-first dynamic. It was Mason, she says, who helped her rediscover her sense of playfulness.

“I think there was a time in my 20s when I was maybe wanting to be a bit more mysterious, a little more poised and posed,” muses Lupe, now 37.“Then, I got into a relationship with my husband, who’s also very goof-forward.” Meeting him, she says, helped her get back to her true self.

“One of the first things I found appealing about him,” she says, “was the feeling he gave me of home and comfort, and it just turned me back onto goof being something that’s joyful and relatable.”Since then, she’s cheerfully talked to media about the messiest parts of motherhood — scatological bath time stories, eating chewed-up food her daughter rejected — and, on Dax Shepard’s podcast “Armchair Expert,” the tale of a long-running prank that involved convincing co-star Kristen Bell that Lupe was an adherent of the drink-your-own-pee wellness cult.“My [publicist] is always like, ‘Can we lean a little bit away from the bodily function stuff?’” Lupe says with a laugh.

“But I just find it so funny.”The actor is joining me from Brooklyn Heights, where she’s living while she shoots a Netflix movie she describes as “a big old action comedy.” It’s...