![]() To get to play those characters in that situation was just absolutely delicious. But this time we weren’t being brash or mischievous, we were being naughty by playing something sincerely. In this (episode), it felt, like so many things on the show, like we were getting to be naughty. And Ron made his emotional reactions very dramatic, which was then very funny. “But the nice thing is the writers played off of my penchant for drama by giving Ron subject matter that was dead serious. The very thing that was enjoyable about Ron, his brevity, could get one hankering for a little bit of Shakespeare here and there. And so while ‘Parks and Rec’ has been the greatest job of my life, if I ever longed for anything, it was a good meaty, dramatic scene. I come from a discipline which utilizes the entire spectrum of performance. “For me personally, because I come from theater. And hopefully the audience trusts us enough to go with us.’ And I guess they did. When we did a couple of the more emotional scenes, they felt good and right, but I looked around at everyone and said, ‘Is that OK if we do that? I think that was dramatic, guys.’ And everyone was like ‘Yeah, that’s the swing we’re taking. “I was a little nervous about the (drama). When she’s like, ‘No? You’re not going to break? How about this?’ She has the most wickedly inventive tickling systems until finally you absolutely blow milk out your nose. Those were like being tickled by your favorite aunt. “Across the show, whenever there’d be some Mexican standoff between us, and Leslie is going to try every tactic she can think of to get her way with Ron, those were so fun. ![]() That’s what you hope you’re in the room for. You put a quarter in (Amy Poehler’s) ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ machine and you might as well make a sandwich because she’ll just keep going. That was when you got to sit in the star’s desk in class. “There was something about when your character received the full focus of Leslie Knope. The Swanson-esque way in which Mike has allowed him to handle it is so touching. The events of his life, including the story with Leslie, has brought him to an emotional place that he’s never known. It took Ron to an entirely unrecognizable place because of these events that happened during the three-year jump. ![]() “I love the thoughtfulness of, ‘three years have gone by, this rift has happened between Ron and Leslie,’ and the depths and extent to which Mike thought it out. I think people can understand it, if you’re the guy getting handed Ron Swanson’s dialogue after 20 years of playing a rapist on ‘24,’ you’d cry with gratitude too. I will start crying at the drop of a hat. And so hearing of that… I’m hilariously sappy historically across the history of the show. From start to finish, I just have had such intense feelings of gratitude and ‘How did I get so lucky?’ when it comes to the things that were handed to me by Mike and Amy. Mike had mentioned that he was writing a one-act play for me and Amy. NICK OFFERMAN: “I had heard a rumor of (the script). ![]()
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