That is a big thing that we try to do, that maybe my character starts off a little bit big and the idea is that's how he starts off because he's trying to impress people. Also John Malkovich is in this 30-minute comedy, which is heaven. I think you see it with Steve's character, with John's character, with my character. I think that's something that Greg and Steve put a lot of thought into. There's a lot that goes on in this first season. This is similar in tone to that.īut in the first season of anything, we've got to explain to you who the characters are to begin with before we start making them grow out so you know where they're coming from. I think you can really hit great comedy when you have a little bit of drama and a little bit of heart. You look at "The Office" and "Parks," you see the character development. The coolest thing also is that if we get a second season, I think it goes even higher and stronger because Greg is so incredible at those second seasons as well. But I'm in every episode of this one so it's like, you want to see what happens and how I deal with things. Jean-Ralphio kind of got more and more Muppet-like and cartoonish, which was so fun to play, because I was a guest star and only in it for two minutes, so you don't need as much character development in some of that. We got to make sure that he's more human." He was like, "Absolutely, we've got to make sure to do it." "We've got to make sure he's more grounded. One of the things that we did at the very beginning is that after my first audition I sat down with Greg and said, "Hey, we got to make sure this isn't Jean-Ralphio," which is a "Parks and Rec " character. They had their characters and the things that, if you watched a 30-minute comedy you know who they are, but they keep growing and changing. I'm so happy you brought that up, for someone who was obsessed with "The Larry Sanders Show," who watched how Larry and Hank Kingsley and Beverly and all of them. He's abrasive and doesn't jive with everybody else. If this were a project that were with different people behind it, acting in it, writing in it, a character like that would be, he's the social media manager and that's it. Then also there's a part of me that wants to be close to Mallory, who's the scientist, the kind of the hipper dad of the two. There's a part of me that always tries to impress Naird, Steve Carell's character. It's funny where my world is this, and he doesn't take it seriously at all. It's great because Steve Carell plays a very military front and forward person who does not know what Twitter is, who barely knows how to use his iPhone. He's trying to do it in a way that is not really the vernacular of anybody else. He's the one who tells everybody what Space Force is and he's the one that spins any story for good or bad. They're all good at their jobs, but they're so over their heads with the responsibility and the repercussions of their mistakes. I think that's a big thing with all these characters. When he makes a mistake for Space Force, the world hears about it and he could really hurt the country. Then you find out that he's good at his job, but he's just so over his head, because when he makes a mistake for Urban Outfitters, nothing really happens. He somehow thinks that working for the government is now worse. In my head, he worked for Urban Outfitters or American Apparel or something where he was the media manager, failed, got fired, and this is his last resort. He's not a scientist, nor is he a spaceman, they're called, the branch of the military that's Space Force. I think that's one of the reasons why Greg and Steve injected him in there. Describe him to someone who hasn't seen him yet, because he is a very unique personality in this otherwise very rigid, by the book environment. They did a callback with Steve and in that audition, I improvised with them a bit. So I auditioned, and the process of first audition to rolling cameras was so quick. This audition came up and it was just the easiest thing for me to say, "Yeah, I would love to audition for that." It was Greg Daniels, Steve Carell. I was a little bit disappointed because I put three years of my life into this and it was prime TV years also, right off "House of Lies" and "Parks." And then it didn't go, which many pilots don't - many good pilots don't. I got to be the lead in this cool movie, this cool TV show opposite Jillian Bell, who's kind of a comic genius. "The Wrong Mans," an American version of that. Abrams, James Corden and Matt Bayton were producers. I did this TV show, which I put three years into. Let's talk a little about how "Space Force" came to be for you, because you got this role coming off a big disappointment in your life.
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