Hank Azaria

You take on the characteristics of the disease without necessarily picking up the drink.

Doesn't that sound like a riot?

So, yes, and essentially you become an alcoholic because you have that nervous disorder.

You're just not drinking to assuage it.

And while alcoholics are obsessed with the next drink, you are obsessed with the person who is obsessed with the next drink.

And for real.

So you're kind of obsessed with their next drink.

Yes, you know, and keeping them from it or counting drinks.

We pour expensive liquor down drinks.

There's all this quaint 1940s language around all this in these books.

But so 30 seconds in, I'm like, I kind of know about alcoholics.

I'm like, I think this is more about my marriage.

This is more about how I am.

a nut in that context and obsessive.

And then 30 seconds after that, I was like, this is about the family I grew up in.

This is about mom and dad and my two sisters.

And then 30 seconds after that, I'm like, you know what?

This is just me now.

This is just me.

I don't need sisters, a friend, a wife, work, anything.