Nick Offerman

Your role in Devs, for example, as Forrest, the...

head of a tech company who suffered a tragedy and trying to sort of remake the world in order to potentially save himself and his family.

What was it like for you to do a totally serious role like this?

I mean, I'm such a massive fan of Alex Garland to begin with, specifically for his films Ex Machina and Annihilation.

I mean, he was a novelist first.

He wrote The Beach, which became...

So to get to work with him on this beautiful eight-episode series was just a gift in so many ways, but it was kind of a wonderful throwback to my time in Chicago theater where...

My best role was in this dramatic play as sort of a villainous Irish indentured servant who the audience loved to hate.

I always thought that was going to be my wheelhouse, like Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, kind of like dastardly, charming bad guys or something.

And so getting to work on...

That heady and that dramatic was just an incredible gift.

The cast was so incredible.

Alex is, you know, all of the crew heads, the key, the department keys that always work with him, the visual effects people, the camera people, the music people.

It's just an incredible experience.

And it was a relief that the world was going to allow me to be a thespian, to be an actor, that I rolled the dice correctly enough that I get to do something as effective as Ron Swanson, but then I'm granted permission to still continue as an artist and do more work.

So I'm really grateful for that and look forward to trying some more stuff.

I just thought I'd share with you, my wife came in at the very, I guess the last 15 or so minutes of the last episode.

And I've been binge watching over the last couple of days.

And she was watching you and she said, is he a good guy or a bad guy?

And I looked at her and I said, well, kind of both.