Rachel Bloom Was Born This Way

It takes a neurotic, death-obsessed theater kid to make ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,’ TV’s best show about a neurotic, death-obsessed theater kid achel Bloom is concerned that someone is spying on us. She’s sitting across from me at Echo Park’s Andante Coffee Roasters, sporting a pair of vintage sunglasses that previously belonged to a now-dead Holocaust survivor and a red Free People peasant dress that previously belonged to her Crazy Ex-Girlfriend character Rebecca Bunch .