I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.

I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics.

When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.