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My mother is from Logan, Kansas.
I love Kansas very much, so I am genuinely very happy to be here.
You started acting when you were pretty young, right?Four.
Yeah.So I was getting older.
But you came from a family where your mother was a working actor and a coach.Yes.
So yeah, those are my genes, at the core.
And because you go to an audition and there are like, 30 other kids there.
There are so many parents who are like,Get in there junior, and dont eff this up!
Thats where I really found it to be fun, because auditioningsucks.
And how soon after that breakthrough moment did you bookFreaks and Geeks?I was 16.
I had just come back from living in Florida.
How was that?Bummer.
I dont like humidity.
And everyone wanted to, like, shoot guns and fight … Like what kind of questions?Like,why?
Thats the biggest one.
Whats valuable to me here?
That is heavy stuff for 15!Yeah!
So at 16 you get cast onFreaks and Geekswhich I think is where most of us first saw you.
But he was basically like,you guys can go fuck yourselves.
You have no idea what youre doing.
Youre making the biggest mistake just about the way that they wanted to tweak things.
So he got very aggressive and just wouldnt shoot things.
And Judd didnt want to do their stereotypical heres-what-the-first-season-of-a-high-school-show-looks-like crap.
Which is real ballsy for a guy who could get fired any second!
And we were so much younger.
So it was obviously a huge thing for me at 16 to have that experience.
Its really fucking cool.
I think I appreciate it so much more because Ive watched things that deserve to continue, fail.
Because I was so trepidatious, they kind of followed suit a little bit.
Nobody jumped to conclusions or got ahead of themselves.
I watched an episode.
Thats all I could handle.
It was too accurate.
Thats a good feeling.Yeah.
I meet all those guys, theyre just like that.
[Laughs] I miss it!
Thats what I was going to ask!
I dont know that I like it.
I also dont love the attention.
I dont know if you’re free to tell!
I like just being able to pop in and pop out.
But this was a really fun experience.
I also produced the movie.
But thats interesting too.
When it comes to the creative process, do you see yourself doing more of that?
And I really like.
Its just a weird, weird little story.
I like weird little stories.
Well see how it goes.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
