Charlie Day

The next year I auditioned and I got to be part of that group.

After my third year there, I got an agent.

Weirdly, I don't get too much of that.

I don't know if I don't give off a vibe of that I'll help or I'm not sure why, but... Do you feel... No, but let me rephrase that.

No, that's true, yeah.

Although, you know, in some ways, doesn't everybody do that?

What was unique about what we did is we did it for television where, you know, like you, there was a lot of that in independent film.

If you're the Coen brothers, you know, you raise money, you do Blood Simple and then you, you know, you go do Raising Arizona or whatever it is.

And I guess we just took that model to television.

We said, well, we'll do the first one real cheap and down and dirty, and then hopefully someone gives us money to do this more legitimately.

But going back to your question before, I often do promote Williamstown, which for me was like a showcase situation, or if you're really serious about acting, go to grad school, which I wish I'd done.

Because that place was not only boot camp for acting, it was boot camp for...

you better show up and shine.

Because in that group, in that non-equity group, it was myself and Katherine Hahn and Sterling Brown.

Wow.

And, I mean, the competition was so fierce.

And Jimmy Simpson and these people were going to outshine you.

They weren't trying to outshine you, but they were going to do their work and they were going to be, you know, they were going to come to rehearsal, not set, and just blow it out of the water.

So you had to learn how to...

I feel like my first summer there, I did well in some plays, and I thought the next year, I thought everyone would be like, well, he's the man, let's give him everything, and it wasn't that way.