Nick Offerman reflects on his career and the kind of fame that comes with it.
The last of us actor appeared in the November 6 episode Where everyone knows your name, podcast hosted by Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson. With his wife Megan Mullally, Offerman talked about his winding road to success.
Hit comedy series Parks and recreation was Offerman’s first big leap in terms of his acting career, he said.
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“I was very happy,” Offerman, 54, said of that period of his life. “I was Mr. Mullally. I had a wood shop and I was regularly doing guest star jobs and Sundance movies. And we were big fans Office.”
Offerman recalled mentioning to his wife — who was acting Will & Grace and later he also guested with him in Parks and recreation — that if he ever “makes it,” it will be in a role like that of Dwight Schrute in the Office. But when he auditioned for Michael Schur, the creator Officehe didn’t get the role.
Fortunately, Schur remembered Offerman and already had him in mind when creating later Parks and recreation.
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally in ‘Parks and Recreation’ 2011.
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“If Ron Swanson was like any other character, he was similar to the Dwight Schrute paradigm,” Offerman said of his unusual role on the show.
The actor continued: “And so from the beginning, it’s just where [Schur] he saw me He saw a spark of charisma through the facial hair, where he said, ‘I think I can turn you into something palatable to the audience?’ And by God, it is.”
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But the exposure the series has brought him has its nuances. While Parks and recreation was functionally Offerman’s “huge success,” he didn’t rise to massive fame, he said, as actors in similar positions have.
“It’s interesting because I still feel like an underground property,” Offerman said. “I didn’t become, you know, Steve Carell or anything.”
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Offerman has since appeared on shows like Umbrella Academy and The last of us (for which he won an Emmy) and appeared in films such as Sing, We are the Millers and Civil war.
Where everyone knows your name explores the lives of famous friends who are exes cheers acting stardom that Danson and Harrelson have achieved during their acting careers — and serves as a way for the pair to maintain their friendship after their projects together have ended. The podcast is broadcast every Wednesday.
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