00:00I've got to start with you, Tina, though, because you make your directorial debut here.
00:03Yes, I did.
00:04What a fantastic job you did.
00:07Why did you feel like this was the right project and the right time to do this?
00:10I felt like I was just, like, finally old enough.
00:13And it felt like because we only make eight of them,
00:17like, it wasn't like I was needed in the writer's room to help pitch the back 13 episodes.
00:22Like, 30 Rock, there was always too much going on.
00:24And so, and I just felt like this was a kind and gentle group of actors
00:28who would tolerate me if I faltered.
00:31And they were very gracious.
00:32How'd she do, Will?
00:34Fantastic.
00:35It was surprising that she had never done it before.
00:38I was surprised when she said, oh, yeah, this is my first time,
00:42because she's just so great and so, obviously, she knows the shows.
00:47You know, she's creating the shows, so she's, like, the tone setter.
00:51So, and it just was so comfortable doing it with her.
00:55She was fantastic.
00:56The episode turned out great, and we just had a blast doing it.
01:00My favorite was that I got to direct Will destroying that trailer,
01:04like, smashing the Snack Shacks.
01:05That was very fun.
01:06Jack goes through some serious ups and downs this season.
01:09I feel like he kind of embodies, and I'm so sorry, a midlife crisis.
01:13We've got the stash.
01:14We've got the marathon.
01:16We have Mark Brett, which is a whole thing in and of itself.
01:20How did you read Jack's arc this season?
01:22I mean, it was very exciting to see all the different things that he went through.
01:29You know, a lot of the stuff is stuff that I go through in my own personal life,
01:34so for you to describe it as a midlife crisis is throwing me a little bit.
01:38But no, no.
01:39Early midlife crisis.
01:40It is so fun.
01:42One of my favorite parts is in the very beginning of the season when we do the table reads,
01:50and you get to get this script, which you have no...
01:53There's so many possibilities for where it could go, and you see the path being laid out.
01:58And man, these writers are so amazing at creating these super funny, super grounded scenarios.
02:06It's just so fun.
02:07And then you get to have a couple months before production where you're just looking forward to getting to do
02:13it all,
02:13and then you get to spend the time doing it.
02:15It's so great.
02:17What a job.
02:18I feel like he also at least touches on the idea of the male loneliness epidemic that we've all heard
02:24about.
02:24Yeah, it does by accident, doesn't it?
02:26As two of the funniest people out there, I need to know your takes on the male loneliness epidemic, as
02:30people call it.
02:31Well, I don't even know that I've heard this term.
02:34I mean, I think, is it just like everyone's on their phones?
02:37Is it like men separate themselves, and they don't have friend groups the way that women do?
02:40And I feel like in a way, obviously it's not super overt,
02:43but, you know, Jack's storyline this season kind of touches on, like, he's lonely, he's looking for somebody,
02:48he's desperate for human connection.
02:49There are so many things about my character that I feel like are in me personally.
02:57That's not one of them.
02:58Yeah, you have a lot of friends.
02:59I have this wonderful group of friends.
03:02I'm just very lucky in that way.
03:04So I hope that I feel bad for people going through this male loneliness thing.
03:09Maybe, you know, so sending love.
03:12Sending love?
03:13Sending love.
03:13Should I keep talking?
03:14Thoughts and prayers?
03:15I feel like they're going to get a vaccine for it pretty soon.
03:17They're working on a vaccine, and if RFK Jr. will approve it.
03:22RFK Jr. is making it.
03:23He's making it, and you can inject it through wet jeans.
03:28In the finale, when you guys are running, and she says, and Kate says,
03:33you know, sometimes I think death sounds kind of nice,
03:36you give her a lethal side eye that is just hilarious to watch.
03:40Honestly, I'm afraid to die.
03:43And other times I'm like, it seems nice.
03:47Like, sure, the big sleep.
03:49What do you remember from that day and pulling off that scene?
03:51I remember it was very cold.
03:53It was cold.
03:54It was always cold.
03:54I remember being impressed with our fitness level.
03:57Like, we were really fit.
03:59We had to keep, you know, jogging in place before it takes to make it seem like we're on our
04:06last legs,
04:06but, like, we probably could have run a marathon that day.
04:08Probably.
04:09Probably could have.
04:10Also, the sounds that your character makes when, like, when I say, like, oh, no, it's only, it's kilometers.
04:16Like, when you have to keep running and you just make these, like, no!
04:19Like, these animals, like, no!
04:20Like, weird sounds come out of you that really made me laugh.
04:22Some good high-pitched.
04:25Do you remember Ghost Steve?
04:27I don't remember, but, oh, Ghost Steve, yes, I do.
04:30There was a guy, and I don't think you really see him in the cut.
04:33There was one handsome Italian background actor as just playing one of the other marathon runners
04:39who looked so much like Steve Carell that it was, like, an omen.
04:42I don't even know if you can find him.
04:44By the way, I might even have a picture of him.
04:46Oh!
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