You play an English professor inLucky Hank.
Did you ever consider majoring in English?
I wish I majored in English.
I majored in broadcasting at Southern Illinois University.
As far as writing goes, I never took a class outside of the normal English class.
But I read like crazy.
I wanted to be a novelist until I got a glimpse of my writing.
Whats on your reading list?
And well, well just stop there.
Oh, Rachel Aviv, her bookStrangers to Ourselves,Im into.
As well as, of course,The New Yorker,which is the best magazine.
I did have a favorite teacher.
Do you remember him?
He would do funny experiments.
He made Dave laugh.
A very clever guy.
An open-minded, fun guy.
I didn’t like chemistry at all.
He encouraged my playfulness, my silliness.
Additionally, I loved my junior high teachers.
They were the ones who really gave me a boost as far as going into show business.
They let me do all my reports as performances, as plays that I wrote.
I would do them around the school.
Your character, Hank, seems to be having a midlife crisis.
Having just turned 60, do you know anything about that?
Its bound to happen.
I think its your relationship to life and to how long we live.
