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He directed a couple of episodes of Justified, and I always kid him. It was the 10 years of nothing I wasn’t ready for.” So I started work on that Monday, and when I went to the set, Arliss Howard’s name was on the call sheet where mine was supposed to be, because I guess he wanted too much money or something! So that’s how I got it! But Avnet is still a friend. You think you’re ready to do this part?” And I said, “I’ve been ready for this for, like, 10 years. And I drove down there and met Jon Avnet, and he said, “Well, I just wanted to see you one more time. By about the fourth time, I was, like, “Why are you… Is there something you’re not seeing? Is there something you want me to do?” Jon Avnet said, “No, I’m just waiting for you to screw up.” And so they called me at one point about two weeks before shooting started and told me I did not get the part, and did I want to play this one-line thing in another scene where I was a Klansman or something? And I said, “No, you tell Jon Avnet I said to kiss my ass.” And I didn’t hear anything.Īnd then about, like, the weekend before they were going to start shooting on Monday, they asked me to go back down to Atlanta one more time. I auditioned for that part six times, kept driving down to Atlanta from my house in North Carolina to audition with Jon Avnet, who kept calling me back. Well, yeah, that was the first role I ever had that was more than one scene. And while the audience was still laughing-you know, we’re going to do another take-Ed Asner comes over to me and goes, “You had to take the pause to get the laugh, didn’t you, you little bastard? I’ll fix you!” So the next time we did it, I said my line, and Ed just came in right on top of it! Head Of State (2003)-“Brian Lewis”įried Green Tomatoes seems to have been a transitional moment for your career. There was one time… I had four lines on the show, and we’re doing in front of the live audience, and…I can’t even remember what the line was, but I took a little pause before my line to tee it up a little bit, and then I said my line, and I got a laugh. Given that The Mary Tyler Moore Show was so formative for you, what was it like working with Ed Asner? We were like… Who were those guys on the Newhart show? But I just did a few episodes as a recurring mechanic character.

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But I had auditioned for a series regular on the show, and Jim Beaver got the series regular, so I’ve hated him ever since. Diane Venora is a great Shakespearean actress, she’s wonderfully powerful, but putting her in a sitcom just did not work. Diana Venora in a sitcom! Probably the worst casting idea anybody ever had.

Thunder Alley ! With Diane Venora and Ed Asner. I think I was 12 years old at my parents’ house watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and I just sort of thought, “Those guys look like they’re having fun, so that’s what I want to do!” But I did a lot of plays in high school and then college, so I went after it that way.

So how did you find your way into acting in the first place? Yeah, exactly: Sweaty Man! I played this guy who was on a date with Heather Graham, and I kept sweating, and they were, like, putting Vaseline on me and spraying water on me and whatnot, and I’m wiping my face and trying to kiss Heather Graham. I actually made note of Desert Wind when I was looking over your filmography, just because of your character’s name: Sweaty Man. But, yeah, it basically was my first real on-camera role. But Killin’ Time was about two soldiers, one of whom gets on a land mine, and it won’t go off ‘til he steps off of it.

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The guy’s name was Michael Nickels-not Mike Nichols -but then he went on to do a movie called Desert Winds with Heather Graham that I was in, and some other things. I’d done this guy’s first short film, and then he wrote this thing for he and I to do. But Killin’ Time was an NYU student film that I did when I was living in New York. Nick Searcy : Yeah! Well, probably the first one you can find anything about, anyway.