Max Greenfield

I started to pick up what was going on.

Next thing you know, we're doing a scene.

David Strathairn, who's so brilliant in the show this year, is doing a thing out in the audience and they're on his coverage first.

And he's looking up at me giving this like insane speech.

I play the president of the university who's wildly full of shit.

And David, who plays this like, as he would describe it, fluffy professor.

is looking at me and keeps going, oh, I just, this man is the worst.

And I go, oh, I now know exactly what I need to be.

I need to be the worst version of what that guy thinks.

And by the way, David Strathairn's a much better actor.

So, but now you've got your motivation.

I know what we're doing now.

And from that point forward, we just ran.

After that, it's a playground.

Yeah, and Mike is so brilliant and so wonderful and, as you say, a wonderful human being, but also very funny and has a little bit of the childlike, you know, mischievous part of himself, too.

But he doesn't show it often because he's got to be the adult in the room.

And so what I would like, what I start to do on the show is sort of needle him and go, Mike, what if we did this?

And he would go, please don't.

Well, no, because it's all within this thing that he's created.

So it's not...