NBC's newest workplace comedy, American Auto, takes the tried and true formula to new heights by setting it against the backdrop of the automobile industry's high stakes. The ensemble series follows the staff of Payne Motors as they begrudgingly welcome their first-ever female CEO, Katherine Hastings (Ana Gasteyer, The Goldbergs), who may be smart as a whip but doesn't know the first thing about cars.

Created by Superstore and The Office producer Justin Spitzer, the show harnesses its host of quirky characters to ensure maximum comedic impact with each weekly crisis. While the employees try to maneuver each fresh scandal, they must also deal with their interpersonal problems and romantic entanglements. Sadie (Harriet Dyer, The Invisible Man) and Jack (Tye White, American Crime Story), for example, awkwardly dance around their pre-pilot one night stand while adjusting to the major changes in their work life.

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Dyer and White spoke to Screen Rant about how their characters handle a new boss whose on a different page, as well as morally compromising situations they find themselves in each episode.

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AMERICAN AUTO -- Pictured: (l-r) Tye White as Jack, Jon Barinholtz as Wesley -- (Photo by: Ron Batzdorff/NBC)

Screen Rant; The relationship between your characters already started pre-pilot, and we're not always sure of where you stand with each other. How much did you talk with each other and with Justin about what came before for Sadie and Jack?

Harriet Dyer: It's funny, another journalist asked us how much preparation we were able to do. But because of COVID, we didn't have the amount of time in person that we normally would, where we'd sit and kind of hash things out. We were very spaced out, and it was mostly just reads of the script for them to tighten up words and stuff.

Dd we talk about it much, Tye? I can't remember. I know I talked to Justin, and he said it was a fling. It's everything that's in the script. But you and I never actually talked about it, did we?

Tye White: No, no. We probably should've.

We never really put much emphasis on that particular moment. I think Jack's main focus has been this new environment, so a lot of my conversations with Justin and Jeff were about going forward. This is a guy from the assembly line, and he's in this new world. How do we continue? How do we want to explore and have him grow as a person, and as a character? How's that interesting? How's that funny?

But we didn't really talk much about the relationship. I think a lot of things were going to be determined by our chemistry on screen. And apparently we have some, because you're enjoying it.

Speaking of the new environment, Jack is feeling a little bit of imposter syndrome. Even though he does deserve to be there, how he got there was very happenstance. How is it for him getting more accustomed to this new world and finding his voice in this environment?

Tye White: I kind of play with my own reality. Sometimes I wake up, and I'm like, "Yo, I'm on NBC. This is nice. Do I belong here? Did they make a mistake?" You can blend the two together.

I feel really lucky to be here, and I think Jack feels that way too. Although his happened with a car accident, I think we both share that same common denominator; we both feel lucky and don't want to mess it up. So, I think Jack is just trying to press forward.

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AMERICAN AUTO -- Pictured: (l-r) Harriet Dyer as Sadie, Ana Gasteyer as Katherine -- (Photo by: Ron Batzdorff/NBC)

Sadie may still be in her same position at work, but everything around her has changed with Katherine as her new boss. What is that dynamic like, and how do you both grow together after starting off on very different pages?

Harriet Dye: Yeah, I think as we saw in the last episode, Sadie was initially just terrified that Katherine wouldn't like her. And that she'd probably just come in and clean out the old guard, and replace them with people that she likes or something. So, I think she really desperately wanted to have Katherine's approval.

But I think Sadie is also going to learn a little bit of this ballsy-ness from Katherine. I think there's something quite attractive about Katherine to Sadie: she walks in and doesn't give a [crap], whereas Sadie really does. She's constantly trying to cross the t's and dot the i's, to get everything right and be really good at a job. And then here's this woman who's just like, "What do you guys think? I don't really care."

I think she's learning to have a little bit of a work-life balance because of Katherine's reign. I feel like, as the season goes on, she might actually just adopt a bit more Katherine to her, because maybe what she was doing before wasn't working for her. Maybe she doesn't have to work 16 hours, maybe she can work 10. It doesn't matter: if she doesn't care, I don't care.

This show opens the door to a lot of the less savory aspects of big corporations in the auto industry. Did you learn anything surprising or horrifying while filming?

Harriet Dyer: I think that the episode about the recall was interesting, because it's people's lives that we're dealing with. I've never thought about how people really weigh up and actually evaluate the value of a human life, and of money versus death.

It's a very American idea, that kind of big, hungry Corporation. I live in America now, but I am obviously Australian. We shot the pilot when Trump was still in [office], and it can get really close to home, all of that stuff. What do you think, Tye? You grew up in Detroit, and the motor industry that was all around you.

Tye White: I'll just say the recall. I'll piggyback on that, as a little spoiler for future, but I think that was very insightful. We do it with a comedic tone, but it was impactful to learn that corporations really will put a dollar value on your life. And is it worth it in the long run to do that?

I know we do it in a much lighter tone, but I think that's something that's really interesting about the show. We touch on topics that are not so cool. And, in a way, you have to be open-minded and willing to explore the comedic sensibility of those moments. Then you'll find the show very entertaining.

Being from the Detroit auto industry, we haven't gotten into anything about the car element that I don't know yet.

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American Auto airs new episodes every Tuesday night at 8/7c on NBC.