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00:00So you have a little trepidation going into this role like a lot of actors do I don't call it insecurity

00:06Just like can I do this?

00:08Are they going to fire me a week later or all of that?

00:13Does that ever go through your head on on every single thing?

00:17You could call it insecurity as well. I mean Mike my agents jokingly called me Mark Waffle. Oh

00:26Because I I'll get you know, even this I

00:30I I was telling everyone I was like, I don't I don't think I could do this and even even Yorgos. I I I

00:37Wanted to work with him. I he's one of the great auteurs and

00:42I reached out to work with him and then he sends me this and I said

00:47Yorgos, I don't know if I'm the right guy for this and he just went

00:53It's you

00:56He just knew yeah, what had in the way you in that made him think you could go off the deep end here

01:03You know, it's funny. He it was it was things that aren't really

01:09Germane to this it was Foxcatcher. It was I know this much is true, which was a television

01:15Would you want an Emmy for obviously playing the twins? Yes. Yeah, and

01:20That he saw those and

01:22But I don't know where the comedy came from. No, I mean you can count on me

01:26Oh, yeah, and he and he said I I thought you could do the comedy because I saw you do it

01:32So well, and you could come on me

01:34Okay. Yeah, which I was like

01:37Okay

01:40Lot of funny bits in that but

01:43Yeah, but it was such a gift, I mean obviously it's such a it's such a great part and it's such a stretch

01:50And I got to do stuff that I haven't done since I was probably a kid on a you know

01:5630 seat the stage here in LA back in the

02:00late 80s and early 90s