Ben Schwartz Interview on Playing ‘The Afterparty’ Murderer

Spoilers for The Afterparty finale, “Maggie,” below.

Ben Schwartz relishes playing the delightful goofball — most recently a schmoozy PR director and a beloved anthropomorphic hedgehog — but Apple TV+ whodunit The Afterparty subverts that typecasting. As Detective Danner (Tiffany Hadish) narrows her investigation of who killed pop star Xavier (Dave Franco) down to gentle Aniq (Sam Richardson) and hothead Brett (Ike Barinholtz), Schwartz’s Yasper seems to fade into the background. But after seven episodes navigating differing perspectives on one harrowing high-school reunion and its after-party, Danner puts together the clues in the finale: It was the lovable wingman with his…