D'Arcy Carden felt the pressure of putting a five-star performance into The Five-Star Weekend. "There's a lot of emotion, and I'm a comedy girl," Carden, 45, said during her Monday, December 1, appearance on Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast. "And it was just like, there were certain scenes that it was, I don't know if you'd call that scared, but it is that thing where you're like, you better bring it. You gotta show up, and there's no way to not. You have to." The Five-Star Weekend is an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's 2023 novel of the same name.