I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.
Denis LearyOne of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.
Denis LearyI like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.
Denis LearyI fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.
Denis Leary