Sometimes I’ll meet people and they’ll say, “Oh, you’re not an asshole. When you say you’re not singing in people’s ears, are other people scream-singing at you? I did a Q&A with Nick Offerman a couple of months ago and he said people would talk to him on the street, back when we could do that, and they’d think he is Ron Swanson. I’m not going up singing in people’s ears or anything like that, but I’m very, very thankful. Even now, after I’ve done quite a few things, that’s still the thing that I’m most recognized for on the streets. I’m sure if you put all my scenes together it’s like one minute of material. Beyond that, watching the reaction of people when they saw Jean-Ralphio, how excited they were, that makes me so happy. With Space Force, you wanted to make sure it was grounded in reality, it was a different character from Parks and Rec. Parks and Rec did it by literally just sending us a cellphone each, and then we recorded it, and I left the cellphone in a box outside and they took the cellphone and edited the footage together. I think these next six months to eight months to a year are gonna be very interesting. I talked to Jeff Schaffer about this recently: How do you think the process of making shows will change now? And you have Greg Daniels writing the words.Īs you said, you shot the show months and months ago. And this one is like, all right, we’re making a fucking funny show. House of Lies is like half-dramatic and half-comedic. After I did Parks, I tried to find roles that were not like that a little bit. One of the things that made me so excited to do, it’s such a comedy, man. can have moments where he’s excited or whatever, but he comes from a character who’s always trying to get respect from people, and when he’s by himself he’s probably a pretty sad guy. In my head, Jean-Ralphio slowly becomes more of like a muppet in a cartoon. When I auditioned for this, one of the things we talked about was making sure it’s nothing like Jean-Ralphio. Well, his name is “Fuck Tony,” which is even more insane. On a scale of zero to Jean-Ralphio, what are we looking at here? Tony-I’m probably gonna fuck this up-Scarapiducci. And then slowly, as all this news of the real Space Force is coming out-they’ll show their camo, and then we’ll be like, “Oh, these are our camos.” You never see an instance of where the thing we’re filming is happening at the exact same time as the real-life thing. It follows another branch of the military called the Space Force. But both of them are in this television show. Or if had just John Malkovich, I would be over the moon. The most insane part is I’m doing a television show where, if had just Steve Carell, I would be over the moon. Stars Steve Carell, John Malkovich, and I am somehow in there. Somehow you guys managed to mine mockable material provided by the current administration. It’s gonna be hard to stick this landing, but you’re on a show-let’s see if we can do this together-called … And I appreciate the military precision of the call-this is a transition. But because Sonic and Middleditch & Schwartz were coming out, I was like, I’m gonna spend some money and get a publicist. I think only one time in my life have I had a PR team, and it was for like three months back in the day when I did a movie called This Is Where I Leave You. I texted them and said, “Hi, I’m gonna be three minutes late.” Because I didn’t want them to have to wait. Everybody is kind and normal human beings. I got a text saying you guys were running three minutes late, and then you called me exactly three minutes later. As you might not expect, that led us into surprisingly detailed conversations about, among other things, word/symbol choices, distinct types of chairs, our shared hatred of Michael Jordan (the player) during our respective childhoods, and our mutual admiration of Jordans (the shoes) during adulthood. And this spring, he has two new endeavors out on Netflix: Middleditch & Schwartz, a long-form improv show with Thomas Middleditch, and Space Force, which comes out May 29, which is … exactly what you think it is, starring just about everyone you can think of, including Schwartz.Īs you might expect, we spent a fair amount of time chatting about his career-about his new shows and old shows, the great actors he’s been fortunate enough to work with, and the current state of the industry. A few weeks back, he reprised his role as Jean-Ralphio for the delightful Parks and Recreation quarantine reunion. Schwartz was the titular voice for Sonic the Hedgehog, released in February just before the movie industry and everything else really went sideways. Ben Schwartz is everywhere right now-which is hard to pull off since, as he pointed out when we recently talked, no one is supposed to go anywhere at the moment.
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