Rachel Martin

You just are it, Tim.

You've piqued my interest.

So we're going to talk explicitly about your new novel.

People might not know, if they just recognize you from your acting, that writing is a very central part of your creative life.

You've written many plays.

What does writing give you in a creative sense that acting has not fulfilled for you over the years?

First and foremost, it gives me a measure of control because as actors, no matter how successful we might become, we're always beholden or reliant on others to give us work.

And that starts with the writer, but it also means that

the director and sometimes the producer and studio are gonna approve you or gonna want you to work on their project.

And so there's a lot of waiting around that goes on in an actor's life, particularly early on.

And I guess I'm just too neurotic and restless to wanna cede that much control over my creative life to others.

And so even in college, when I was learning that reality, I was writing.

Yeah.

And I learned quickly wasn't just a panacea for this issue I had of powerlessness, but

It was something I enjoyed tremendously, like fishing as a kid.

And so I've never stopped.

I almost look forward to the time between parts when I don't know what I'm going to do next because I can wake up every morning and go to the computer and write.

So the book is called Superhero.

Yeah.

And it's a story – I mean, the setting is Hollywood, but it's really about these – some pretty wounded folks, one in particular, your protagonist, Peter, who's this A-list actor who's lived some life.