And my job was really just being sensitive to what story he was trying to tell. Raphael Bob-Waksberg created this incredible character that I got to play over the course of six years. I’m pretty lucky that I get to go and do the things I do. I try not to think too much about that kind of stuff. I remember once someone saying, “Never use the words ‘my’ and ‘career’ in the same sentence.” Maybe that’s the Canadian in me. With Gob, if you were to say, “Hey Gob, time to get real,” he’d be like, “How could I be more real than I already am?” You know? “Is this not real enough for you?” And he’d jump out a window or something.ĭid you find one harder to play than the other? But at least he does have, ultimately, the ability.
And he operates from a place of pure ego.Ĭonversely, BoJack is an alcoholic and a drug addict. I’ve never actually said this, but if anything, you could say that he’s got a mental illness. The first character that anybody really watched me do was Gob. There are so many people who say, “Do you love playing the asshole?” Of course for me, I don’t look at them as being assholes. The tones of Gob and BoJack are quite different, but do you see similarities in the characters? If you don’t read them, you’ll be making a huge mistake. On Monday night-just before both of his characters advanced to the second round-Arnett shared his thoughts on playing Gob and BoJack. On the recently concluded BoJack Horseman, he ratcheted up the self-loathing to voice an anthropomorphic former sitcom star with substance use issues and the desire, but not the ability, to become a better person.
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On Arrested Development, Arnett pumped an ocean’s worth of comedic self-delusion into George Oscar “Gob” Bluth II, a Segway-driving, bully of a failson who couldn’t hack it as a professional magician-or really anything else.
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The Best TV Character of the Century Bracket: Welcome to Round 2 All Anti, No Hero: Pete Campbell and the Failsons of the 21st Century Consider: He had small parts on The Sopranos and Law and Order: SVU his nine-episode arc as Jack Donaghy’s nemesis Devon Banks on 30 Rock led to an Emmy nomination and he’s most famously portrayed two bleakly comedic icons, one a cartoonish buffoon, the other an equine cartoon. But the reality is that there are few people this century who have had such a varied, memorable television career. Who the fuck is in charge of the fucking seeding?”Īrnett was joking, of course. “Am I surprised that I’m the only one with two? No. “I should be grateful, but I should have three on the list,” he deadpanned. When told that he was the only actor with more than one of his characters in the bracket, Will Arnett got delightfully indignant.
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March is a month for brackets, so this week on The Ringer, we’re hosting The Best TV Characters of the Century -an expansive, obsessive, and unexpectedly fraught competition to determine the best fictional TV personality of the past 20 years.
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