Joel McHale is spending more time at home because of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike — and it’s a change for the actor, as well as his wife and kids.
“My family keeps running into me in the house, saying, ‘Who are you and what are you doing here?’” he jokes to PEOPLE. “There was a little more downtime.”
“I’m like most actors where it’s a pain, where you want to do everything,” continues McHale, 51, who shares sons Edward, 18, and Isaac, 15, with his wife of nearly three decades, Sarah Williams. “You want to act all the time, and when you can’t, it sucks.”
He was busy performing stand-up comedy as well as promoting his new project Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match (a non-SAG-AFTRA animated film), based on the video game series.
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In the action comedy, he once again plays Hollywood actor Johnny Cage, who embarks on a dangerous mission to find his colleague after she disappears.
The film is set in the 1980s Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller’s day off icon Jennifer Gray as the missing woman. Unfortunately for McHale, the two never actually met.
“I refused to meet any of the costars,” jokes the prankster, who voices Cage for the fourth time.
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What keeps him coming back? “It’s made for adults,” says McHale. “We can swear. It’s violent. I love how over the top it is.”
Although Community alum and former host of Soup he misses live acting, there are few perks to recording in a sound booth: “Trainers, bare feet, usually soiled T-shirts, that’s about it,” he jokes.
“I don’t control any of the other parts, but they let me improvise a lot, which was great. Some of them were really awful, they just smiled at me and said, ‘No, no, no. It’s really funny. it’s great Right? We all agree? Anyway, can you say a sentence?’” he continues.
McHale has long been a fan Mortal Kombat games, which he played for decades. Now it’s something he enjoys doing with his sons.
Joel McHale voices Johnny Cage in ‘Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match’.
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“I force them,” he says. “I’m old now, so my kids can play. It’s like walking down a basketball court with a bunch of 18-year-olds and you’re like, ‘Oh, right. I don’t move that fast.’ Well, they’re kidding me. it is great.”
However, McHale’s wife doesn’t get in on the action. “We have two sons, and I am like the third son. My maturity level is about the same and I think my sons would agree with that,” he says.
“And to quote sir mom from 1981 with Michael Keaton when he was coming to school and they said, ‘You’re doing it wrong.’ That’s what I usually get.”
Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match is available on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital on October 17th.
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