Nick Offerman

Your character, Jinx, is a hulking guy used to being physical, but it's his wrestling that has brought him pain.

And in response to that chronic pain, he starts using painkillers and his addiction goes on from there.

How did you tackle that part of the role?

Did you talk with wrestlers or people who've dealt with chronic pain or those dealing with drug addiction?

I did.

I mean, sadly, in my business as well as wrestling and pro sports, I sadly have a couple of friends who went through the exact same trajectory of...

inadvertently getting hooked on opioids and then having that uncover a tendency for addiction that led to heroin use.

And so I have dealt with that and have some knowledge of it from being adjacent to it.

And a lot of wrestlers and former wrestlers live in Los Angeles or Las Vegas and

So it was easy to get a lot of sort of research and talk to these people about their interior lives.

And I can, I mean, I thankfully have not had such addiction problems in my life, but I've certainly dabbled in indulgence in ways that, like, I've learned lessons over the years of, like, well, this is fun.

Let me try partying this way for a week and then learning, okay, I see how.

If I don't stop, I will...

ruin a lot of my life.

The thing that's so heartbreaking about Jinx is that he's trying so hard, but the audience can tell that he's struggling.

You know, he's trying to make up for the past, but he's not sure if he can do it.

Can you talk about trying to play that part of Jinx?

The struggle?

Yeah, I mean, it's tied to your last question.

I'm a human... I'm a human male.