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I'm Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing. Jeff Daniels is a genius of many genres. From a selfish intellectual in terms of endearmate to dumb and dumbers big-hearted small-brained pet groomer Harry Dunn, Daniels has had one of the most varied careers in Hollywood or in Central Michigan for that matter.

He grew up in rural Washington, all county raised to take over the family wood business. His life changed when he was spotted at a summer program by Marshall Mason of New York's trailblazing circle-repertory theatre company.

Plucked from a life in lumber, he never waited tables. Jeff Daniels was a working actor from the start even if it meant a few years of doing commercials.

Daniels has always balanced stage and screen. He took on the lead role in AR Gurney's The Golden Age on Broadway the year after his Hollywood breakthrough in James Brooks' Terms of Endearment.

He's back on stage now in his brilliant reimagining of Atticus Finch in Tequila Mockingbird for which he's been nominated for a Tony.

Broadway's schedule is brutal and Daniels has been fighting a cold but he is firmly in the school of the show must go on.

When you're above the title there's a responsibility and obligation with that and especially with Atticus Finch and Mockingbird there are people who bought tickets three months ago.

I know what they do. If you're the star of it and you can't be 100% and there might be Tony voters out there, you bag it.

And you just let everybody know and you just go, I'm not going to go out there less than my best and I've gone out there 50% and on this vocal thing, it was a mucus thing, it was two weeks long.

And there were shows I sounded like Bill Clinton in a close-up. I did the whole closing argument in a close-up and I found a way to make it work for them.

And they forgive you. They can see that you're struggling. Most of them go, he went on versus the understudy which is bad for the understudy but I've said the only way I'm not going on is if I'm bleeding out.

Well, first of all, thank you for doing this on your one day off. Hardly heavy lift. But as every call on that one day off either you had 90 things to do or you did nothing.

You ran around a million. I've come to absolutely nothing. But what I want to begin by asking is what was the genesis of you in the play? How did that start in terms of you playing this part?

I had done newsroom with Aaron Sorkin. I had done the jobs movie with Aaron. It was similar with the newsroom thing was a meeting with Scott Rodin and Aaron and by the end of the breakfast meeting I had it.

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