Ben McKenzie

Great movies.

So that was my first movie.

And I don't think I've been able to top it since.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think because I was hot at the moment, they were like, okay, we'll do him.

But we don't know about the female lead and we don't have the money to pay anybody who's already established.

And so I read with a couple of people that,

And yeah, it was just like a different, you know, it was like night and day.

It was like playing with Drew Brees.

And to the point where you're like, oh crap, he's throwing the ball at me fast.

Oh, fuck yeah.

Like at least get your hands up so he doesn't hit you in the face because it's coming.

And it's very sobering when in the edit, it's like, oh, it's just them.

And I came from a family of writers.

My mom's a poet.

My uncle, Robert Schenken, is a playwright and a screenwriter.

Pulitzer Prize winner.

Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony winner, Emmy winner.

It's interesting how you sort of define yourself, but I had never thought of myself as a writer.

And yet I was fascinated by it.