Hari Kondabolu

As a child, I don't know why my mom didn't have me go to the therapist.

Speaking of your accent, I read that in True Detective Night Country, you play an Alaskan native.

But what I read, and you can tell me if it's true or not, is that your native Rhode Island accent would come out frequently enough that they figured they'd better write that into your character so that it would be explicable if all of a sudden you're like looking at a corpse or something and you're like, oh, that's wicked gross.

I think you just sold the next hit series for HBO, by the way.

Hopefully with you in the lead.

It was strange.

So in everything you've starred in so far, from like True Detective to this new movie Mercy, you always play people who seem like they could and would kick your ass at any moment.

Do you ever want to get cast in a different kind of part, like a romantic lead in a Hallmark movie?

It does.

It kind of does.

I'm sorry.

How about a Hallmark movie

where you come back to your hometown, leaving the big city, and you find the guy who, you know, broke your heart 20 years before, and it turns out he's a jerk and you beat the crap out of him.

I'm sorry.

That's another show for HBO.

We're lining up projects for you.

Well, Kaylee Reese, it is a pleasure to talk to you, and we have asked you here, as we do with everyone, to play a game.

And in your case, we're calling it... The Future is Here.

And by here, we mean Las Vegas, because that's where every year the Consumer Electronics Show happens.

It just wrapped this year.