or other stuff that I’ve done as an actor, has been very emotionally laden stuff, very intuitive, and especially, for me, making that kind of material my whole life, it’s always been very easy for me to learn lines. So it was intimidating, and also, my brain is 49 years old. What’s incredible is, Myha’la [Herrold] is insane. She can stroll in that morning and learn her lines and I’m just like, “I’m jealous of your brain.
Yeah, you do have to understand it. You have to understand everything you’re saying. I mean, I don’t understand everything in Season 2 because I gave up on everything that didn’t relate directly to me.Yeah, but I did ask Mickey and Konrad a million questions as I was going.
Well, I just thought that part of it was fascinating. I love the fact that it takes you a while to figure out that he’s essentially in the U.K. to go get his son. Or at least try to. I thought that was incredible. I actually sat next to Jeff Bezos a few times. In the early days of, that was the show that built Amazon. And so he was at the Golden Globes with us and I don’t know why, but I got sat next to him, maybe because I was the only other white dude in the whole show.
I think with your character Jesse, you’re able to bring this kind of warmth and humor to it that may not have been there in the original conception of the character. Was that something that was on your mind, too: the humor of it and trying to find places to make it funny? Because the show can be really funny even though it’s so dark at the same time.