John Slattery

And in fact, from my school...

Ellie Kemper was one of my students when I went back to teach.

Heather Goldenhirsch, who was a Tony-nominated actress.

Stephanie Sanditz, Leslie Stevens, all these kids.

Sarah Clark, who was in my class, was on 24, who dated Paul Rudd, believe it or not.

So we had this kind of weird concentrated energy that was very creative, but we were encouraged.

So it was, I didn't know any actors, but I thought, well, why not me?

ham will do it do you ever feel though that you like could have been a were you ever good in a sport enough that you had like dreams like every i thought i was gonna be a i thought because also the other half of my growing up was my best friend john simmons his dad was a professional baseball player ah so i was like so you knew a professional baseball i didn't know a professional baseball player and i was like man one of these days me and me and john simmons we're gonna be we're gonna play for the cardinals together probably

I was a catcher.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The stocky guy?

Yeah.

No, I was always this shape.

I was always lanky.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, right?

Wouldn't you say I'm lanky?

Kind of lanky.

I feel lanky.