It’s a hot, smoggy day in Los Angeles, and Ayo Edebiri’s Chihuahua mix, Gromit, is in his usual high spirits. Yes, he’s annoyed that Edebiri has left him stateside while she’s off filming Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt in London (according to him, the two should be together every second of every day), but he’s just taken a luxurious bath and is being offered peanut butter, so not all thrills are lost.
After barking at photographer Walker Bunting for a few minutes—his customary greeting of strangers—Gromit is ready for his close-up. “He was just so chill,” one of three people on set explains, adding that he was partial to the leather-couch and bean-bag setups at Edebiri’s friend’s house. “He would sit and pose for 30 minutes at a time. He was perfect.”
None of this is a surprise to Edebiri, who tells Dogue from London that her beloved rescue has a “freakish sense of sentience.” Indeed he does: Correctly sensing that the shoot is winding down, Gromit makes his way to the top of the stairs and bids Bunting adieu by staring at him intently until he leaves.
Because there’s so much more to learn about Gromit than could be gleaned from his photo shoot and Edebiri’s notes from across the pond, below, Edebiri and Gromit answer Vogue’s Dogue questionnaire.