Will Friedle

I was like, I don't need to take this guy seriously.

No, I know.

And I mean, obviously that's exactly who I, that's what my second career was.

And it's funny because now my perspective of it is like, oh, there's so many things to value about having been an actor when you're a director.

But at the time, I think I just assumed...

Yeah.

Well, there was also... This is not a compliment to me.

This is a very big... This is me saying that I was a terrible person.

But, like, I... Also, we were on... We should have had... We were already doing four-day weeks.

And...

based on the sets that we were using, the storylines we were doing, how comfortable we were, we could have and should have had like two to three hour work days.

And when you would get a new or first time director, your days were longer because they want, they, for them, for themselves, they want to be able to act, work out the scene and talk about the blocking.

Meanwhile, we're like, I already know where I'm going to walk

I'm going to come in from over here and I'm going to cross over there and we're going to.

And so, yeah, I did just generally have a feeling of like, why are we doing you a favor at this point on season seven of the show where life should be easier for us?

We've earned that right.

We've been here now because it's season seven.

They've decided to give everybody a chance to direct an episode, to write an episode.

Yeah.

And it makes our days longer.