Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "I Think Selling Pot Becomes a Way For Him to Have Something to Do"
By Mark Blankenship | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 08.06.2007
MP: I have a list in my pocket right here! People I would never want to see at an audition… MB: Awesome! So juicy! MP: But, yeah...I think you can create a community where it's not about that. And because I'm different from a lot of actors I know, it erases a lot of the sense of competition. Like, from all the people I went to grad school with, there's very few that I compete with at an audition. MB: Do you feel like you've got friendships that have come out of your various projects? MP: Definitely. And not just the cast. Crew crosses over a lot, especially in New York, where the community is just a lot smaller. I just did this film 27 Dresses with Katherine Heigl and James Marsden, and a guy from 30 Rock came it to work for a day on it, and it's like, "Oh my god!" And you just start to see people's names. Last night, a friend of mine had the DVD of this series that was on the WB for a year called Grosse Pointe, and we were watching the end credits and I was like, "Oh my god, I know that editor!" And with Weeds, it's our third year now. It's like going back to school after taking the summer off. Mary-Louise [Parker] threw this really nice dinner for the cast last week, and it was a great opportunity to hang out at a fancy restaurant and drink wine. MB: So on the set...who are you? Are you, like, the troublemaker? Are you the wily prankster? MP: No, I'm the good kid, I think. There's not a lot of troublemakers, actually. 30 Rock is definitely split a little bit between the younger cast members and the more experienced cast members. And I have so little to do with Jack McBrayer or [the actors that play] the writers, so whenever we do get to have a day together, it's so much fun. MB: Now...because I am a total fanboy geek and have seen Mean Girls upwards of ten times, I must ask you: What's it like working with Tina Fey? MP: Tina is so nice. I don't know how she does it. She creates, writes, [and] stars in the show, and I believe she executive produces. And she has a kid. And you can tell she's a great mom. And she did a movie on our hiatus. And still somehow she has time within a day to respond to my "congratulations on all the Emmy nominations" email. She instantly wrote back to say thank you. I just feel like you don't find a lot of people like that at all. Not only in the industry, but anywhere. People who can just get that much shit together.