Nick Offerman

And within minutes, people, casting directors were calling and saying, I didn't know you do comedy.

And I was like, I just, I just do acting.

I don't like, I do whatever I can be a horrible bad guy, or I can be an absolute clown.

I'm sorry.

I didn't realize I had to like, let you guys know that.

Yeah.

And then it's funny, then my big break was Parks and Recreation.

Then there was a period where I had to convince people that I could be dramatic.

You're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

What made you decide to move to Los Angeles, given your love of the theater?

At that point, were you very consciously determined to go beyond the theater?

No, it was pretty stupid.

I mean, I have had a pretty blissfully ignorant existence before.

really my whole life, things were going well in Chicago.

I was starting to get cast in good parts at big theaters.

I won like an award for acting in this Pulitzer prize winning play called the Kentucky cycle.

That was really good.

So things were going great.

And I did a couple of movie jobs and people that were from LA working on the films were

were very encouraging.