Nick Offerman on ‘Parks and Rec,’ Hollywood and More
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Nick Offerman, who is poised to land his first acting Emmy nomination for his guest appearance on HBO’s ‘The Last of Us,’ takes us inside his prolific Hollywood career. In this episode, the actor opens up about tearing up at the end of the ‘Parks and Recreation’ reunion special, breaks down his intense performance on ‘Devs,’ looks back on his earliest TV roles on ‘ER’ and ‘24,’ shares how his priorities shifted as he entered his 50s and a lot more.
This episode was originally published on May 26th, 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this July 4th week, we are revisiting a really great conversation I had with Ron Swanson himself, Nick Offerman. |
| 0:17.0 | Nick has actually been on this podcast twice, but today we are listening back to the first |
| 0:22.4 | episode we taped together back in May of 2020, when the pandemic was still very fresh, and he had |
| 0:28.4 | just reprised his role as the director of the Pawnee Indiana Parks and Recreation Department |
| 0:32.8 | for an elaborate reunion special of that iconic NBC show. He had also just delivered a deeply |
| 0:39.2 | moving performance in one of my favorite drama series of that year, Devs, which we talked |
| 0:43.7 | about at length as well. Now, Nick is once again in the Emmy Hunt for another emotional role |
| 0:49.8 | in what has to be one of the best standalone episodes of television ever on HBO's The Last of Us. |
| 0:57.0 | Basically, I always love Nick on screen, and I hope you enjoy listening to our conversation on this holiday week. |
| 1:03.0 | Here's me with Nick Offerman. |
| 1:06.0 | Well, I really want to talk about devs, which I have to say is one of my favorite shows that's |
| 1:12.1 | come out during this time. And it's the thing that I recommend to everyone who's like, you know, |
| 1:15.5 | what should I be watching right now? But before we do that, I do want to ask a couple of questions |
| 1:21.7 | about the Parks and Rec reunion, which was so much fun. And, you know, it was just a little bit ago when we're talking now. |
| 1:29.9 | So, yeah, I mean, the kind of the joke in the show is that Ron Swanson is, like, perfectly suited to |
| 1:36.6 | this because he's been social distancing since he was four years old. But how are you coping with |
| 1:42.3 | this time better or worse than Ron, would you say? |
| 1:46.3 | I guess probably not as good as Ron because I am a social animal. |
| 1:53.3 | And, you know, I don't have a cabin that's accessible. |
| 1:58.7 | You know, if I had a cabin I could go to where I could like hunt and dress deer and like, |
| 2:06.3 | you know, be packing away meat for the future and, and, and he's drying out, |
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