![]() Even watching it on a screen this size” – he gestures to a large canvas on the wall – “in your living room is doing it a disservice. “We’re constantly wrestling with their propensity to watch everything – TV, films – on their laptop. ![]() He tussles with his teenage godchildren in Los Angeles over screen time: not how much, necessarily, but how big. He is as at ease in the great outdoors – using his hands, building receptacles for babies (a cradle resembling a little rowboat, “but I stand by it because it’s seaworthy”) and illicit substances (small, coffin-shaped boxes “to secretly hold people’s marijuana”) – as he is uncomfortable in the digital world. I know I don’t have a canoe in me, but if I did, Offerman would be the man to find it. He is a master carpenter and rhapsodises, in an entirely pragmatic and not at all patronising way, of the transformative power of “successfully shaping wood with handtools”. But the character’s passion for woodwork came about after the entire writing staff paid a visit to Offerman’s wood workshop in east Los Angeles. Offerman has much in common with his character by both character and design: Swanson played the saxophone before the writers knew the man who’d portray him could, too. His career began in professional theatre, around 1991 his breakout role in Parks and Recreation, which first aired on NBC in 2009 and concluded early last year, was one of his first in comedy. Offerman still doesn’t consider himself a comedian, even while doing press interviews during his standup tour of Australia. It was before he came to be seen as a comedic actor, he says – though “the canoe video does have a few laughs in it”. I’d brought up a role of his that predates Parks and Rec: presenting a 136-minute instructional DVD called Fine Woodstrip Canoe Building. (“A great place to start is actually a paddle.”). A bedside table from Ikea that took me a week to assemble barely functions a canoe is definitely beyond my capabilities, no matter how simply Offerman breaks it down for the “beginner woodworker”. ![]() Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly 's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.He’s really hit his stride, leaning forward in his seat to emphasise a point about something called a spokeshave, and inwardly I’m starting to panic that I might have to admit I’ve no intention of following through. But it's so fun to be in a practical world, and play with practical things, and given the breadth to find new moments within the script. ![]() We had this incredible set design, and we have Nic dressed up as Dracula, and the menace, but also in that scene we got to play with all sorts of stuff, push the comedy a little bit, push the fear a little bit. 'An absolute joy to be strangled by Nic Cage.' It's so fun, because he's dressed as Dracula, and Nic goes 110 percent into whatever role he is, so it was so little acting and just responding to what's in front of you. "And we can make this the headline of the article. What is it like going to work knowing you'll spend the day with Nicolas Cage's hands around your throat? When Tedward first encounters Dracula, the undead count almost strangles the mobster to death. ![]() Short / Universal Pictures Ben Schwartz in 'Renfield' ![]()
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