South Beach Sessions - Max Greenfield
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How did Max Greenfield transition from struggling student to successful actor?
Kings Network.
Usually I look at this camera and I welcome people into South Beach Sessions, but Max Greenfield has requested that this be more intimate. So tell me how you want to do this so that there can be a maximum intimate conversation.
I would have liked for you to have recorded everything we said for the last 20 minutes.
Well, you're asking me a lot of questions. You're a sports dork. You are asking me a lot of questions. I should tell the people when I'm introducing you that a man on the inside is what you're doing now with our friend Mike Schur on Netflix.
Friend of the show.
Yeah, but you're not just here because, you know, you want to hang out. We're plugging something, so I've done my part here. Now we can go intimate?
Yes, Man on the Inside Season 2 from creator Mike Schur starring Ted Danson. And you're in the mix. I'm in the mix. We'll get there.
Well, but they've welcomed you into their family. They seem like really decent people. It seems very un-Hollywood, whatever Ted Danson and Mike Schur and their significant others have going on.
It's incredible. Mike Schur is the greatest. I've known him for a very long time. We've been friendly for ages, and he finally invited me to come work with him, and it was spectacular, as you would imagine.
Okay, well, I want to hear more about it. Should I introduce you as New Girl, The Neighborhood?
This is your show.
Writer of children's books? If you want to be identified publicly by your work, what is it that you would put in front of people to tell?
All those things sounded great.
Okay, all right. Well, children's books, like that seems like something that's far afield from everything else you're doing.
Right. It came about in a very strange way. A worldwide pandemic hit. My daughter, who... you know, she was like entering fourth grade and there was some academic struggles happening. And we had put what they call scaffolding around her and support. And she finally was really thriving and doing well. And she had some wonderful teachers in fourth grade. And then the pandemic hit and we were She was at school on a Friday and then a Saturday. Everyone felt like, whoa, this is bad. Sunday, everyone was just like, I guess we're home forever. And then Monday, the school sent us a curriculum that I was... now tasked on teaching her, and I'm not the sharpest. Well, you famously dropped out of school, right? I don't know, famously, but... You went to pursue your dreams is a better way of putting it.
I don't know if my father would say famously. Yes. Disappointingly. School wasn't your thing. School was very difficult for me. It was not something that ever quite made sense. Still kind of doesn't make sense to me. But yeah, we were stuck in a room with a curriculum and we looked at each other and she knew my struggles and I would say to her, Dad, Dad, I couldn't read any of this stuff. And so I would come into her room every once in a while, hey, did you do your homework? And she's like, well, you definitely couldn't do it, so why should I? That wasn't the point of the story. No, that really wasn't why I was sharing with you.
Again, not good at learning, not good at teaching.
Not good at parenting. And so anyway, so we took to Instagram and took a picture because both of us were completely overwhelmed and frightened. And I think we captioned it Professor Greenfield. We threw it out there and using social media in the way that I think it should be used, which is we're scared. We're overwhelmed. We feel very alone. We want to connect with other people. and see hopefully that other people are feeling the same way as we are. And we got this tremendous response and all these first responders called in or wrote on the Instagram and said, oh, these are great. We miss our students so much. I'm in the hospital. Our shift is, you know, God only knows how long these pictures, these videos that we started to do are getting us through this.
And so my daughter and I just started to break up the school day by making these videos. And within that, I had an agent call me and was like,
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Max Greenfield transition from struggling student to successful actor?
0:04–4:43
2
What impact did fatherhood have on Max Greenfield's career and life perspective?
4:43–11:02
3
Why was Max Greenfield intimidated by working with Ted Danson and Mike Schur?
11:02–17:32
4
How did the pandemic inspire Max Greenfield to write children's books?
17:32–23:51
5
What challenges did Max Greenfield face during his 12 years of auditions?
23:51–29:34
6
How did becoming a father change Max Greenfield's priorities?
29:34–34:55
7
What was the process behind Max Greenfield's big break in 'New Girl'?
34:55–41:20
8
How does Max Greenfield maintain a balance between career and family life?
41:20–1:03:31