Max Greenfield

Organized learning, being in a university or a college is not the place for me.

And then whatever it took to have the conversation with my father about I'm not gonna continue this, which he was like, oh my God.

And then found an acting class.

Not well.

Yeah, I think as a parent, you can get a vibe on your kid and see what they're going through.

And I think there must have been some sort of understanding that this is a real struggle for my son here.

And he at least has an alternative path, which maybe is not one that I agree with or that scares me as a parent.

But God bless my parents, they both, you know, reluctantly, I think, against their better judgment, supported an alternative path.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I will say and I have a question, though, because the 20 minutes you cut out of this interview in the beginning was a beautiful sort of discussion we were having about your father.

And I wonder if when you told him that you were going to be a writer, was there any fear on his part about you expressing ideas and being public with your thoughts?

I think there was like a lack of understanding too because my father was and very successful but was in finance and so

It's a different brain.

The arts were not, you know, a part of his experience.

Yeah, yeah.

He actually, so my dad worked, he was in the finance department at several different record labels.

So he would work with,

artists, musicians, and they would come in, they'd ask for money, because they'd be like, we need to do this.

And I remember his last job was at Warner Brothers Records, and KRS-One was like, do you remember KRS-One?