proper. They would do one specialty Asian episode a year, and it was always about some ashamed, repressed Asian man who just lost his mind. Sometimes I killed my brother’s wife. One time it was my sister.There’ve been a couple that I passed on, where it was just a bridge too far. But, in general, the actor’s job is to say yes and then to find a way to make “yes” feel real. And I have good-boy syndrome to begin with, so I wanted to do good work.
My father is an aerospace engineer for Boeing. My mother was the accountant for Manhattan Beach School District’s food department. And my brother and I came in through very different paths. He was a lawyer who became a novelist, and I was an actor who became a TV writer. Now we basically have the same job for the same company.
Like “What are your Tinder preferences?” No, it would be problematic if I hedged on this. I voted yes. There’s no question that the studios have a shifting tectonic world that they’re living in, but I also think that the writers are patient zero for the effects of those changes. One of the defenses I’ve heard is that there’s so many more writers than there used to be. That, to me, borders on offensive.