His experience on The Office:
Unfortunate creepy guy shows up and is immediately and utterly ostracized. It was like, yeah, it was the exact opposite where I was like, Oh my God, look at this. Like, this group of people is just like, so envelopingly sweet. So that was life changing because I was already so fragile and terrified because it was such a new experience, and I wanted so desperately to do a good job. And to be met with that kind of generosity of spirit was, I think, formative for me.
About being approached for being on The Office and Silicon Valley:
Yeah, it’s probably like around 50/50. It depends. It’s like demographically specific… it’s interesting, like if it’s younger people, it’s probably The Office. If it’s like really young people. I think it’s so sweet to me that kids find it so comforting. That it’s a kind of emotional wallpaper. Like people who have watched it a million times will turn it on as a way of feeling like they’re kind of among their friends or in a kind of soothing, warm, silly environment. I think it’s so sweet and so it’s like nice when it’s like some, you know, whatever 19 year old who is immersed in the Scranton paper industry fictional world. I think that’s so sweet. I like that.
Final words:
But that’s sometimes what, like, shooting feels like to me where it’s like this, like, very discrete, specific experience of, like, real, like, big emotion, intimacy, connection. And then you’re, like, off to your lives and you don’t- to me, it often feels that way where it’s like, it’s like this amazing one night stand or something. Except it happened to be a two year stand…I want people who like the show to know how kind the people who worked on this show were and are.