![]() ![]() “He is just a pro, just a wily veteran,” Duke says of Garrett. The Everybody Loves Raymond alum joins the cast of I’m Dying Up Here in the recurring role of gruff comedy legend Roy Martin. “So all the scenes with me and him are always just a pleasure and very easy, and those are always my favorite ones to shoot, honestly.”ĭuke also enjoyed working with Brad Garrett this season. We’ve known each other since were like 7-years-old,” Duke says, explaining that they both moved to Los Angeles with their families as children to pursue acting. – Photo: Lacey Terrell/SHOWTIMEįans of the show have commented on how natural the rapport is between Ron and Eddie, and there is a reason for that. Michael Angarano as Eddie and Clark Duke as Ron in I’M DYING UP HERE (Season 2, Episode 1 “Gone With The Wind”). “Michael Angarano is so good at impressions, and he’s got a dialect coach, and he just took to it really quickly,” Duke says. He praises his co-star Michael Anganaro, who plays Eddie, for his mastery of a Boston accent. For me, for the character to kind of mirror my personal journey a little more, I just felt it could only help.” I just didn’t want to do a bad ‘Park your car’ Boston impression. “I was afraid it might be like tying one of my arms behind my back. “A lot of that was just me not wanting to do a Boston accent for potentially years,” Duke says of the decision to make his alter ego a native of Tennessee. “I was excited and relieved that we got a second season to tell the story.”Įarly on this season, we learn an interesting tidbit about Ron-he is originally from Tennessee, though he and Eddie moved to Los Angeles from Boston. So the first season, I knew it was a lot of track we had to lay to get to the really fun, interesting stuff with Ron,” Duke says. “It was basically what we had always talked about-we being me and Dave Flebotte and Michael Aguilar, the producers of the show. While viewers had no idea that Ron would be the comedian to hit the big time in season two of I’m Dying Up Here, Duke knew the storyline was coming. “I would say I have definitely-or hopefully-grown as an actor.” ![]() I don’t get asked to do drama very much, and I think that was the case for a lot of people on the show,” Duke says, pointing out that the cast includes standups like Erik Griffin and Andrew Santino. “That was what initially excited me about doing I’m Dying Up Here. “This second season has been more overtly dramatic than anything I’ve ever done,” says Duke, who first became known for playing a version of himself in the 2007 web series Clark and Michael, which he created and starred in along with his friend Michael Cera, before going on to roles on the TV shows Greek, Two and a Half Men and The Office and films such as Hot Tub Time Machine 2. But can the kid handle suddenly being a star and all of the attention and pressure that comes with it? “That’s the area we wanted to explore with Ron,” his portrayer Clark Duke says, noting Ron’s storyline this season was inspired by the experiences of other comedians-guys like Freddie Prinze and John Belushi-who struggled to cope with success. Clark Duke as Ron and Bert Belasco as Rene in I’M DYING UP HERE (Season 2, Episode 3, “Bete Noire”). With the high-profile television role comes overnight fame and wealth and a cool party pad complete with a pool. In the second season opener of I’m Dying Up Here, which premiered on May 6, we see that Ron has been cast as Benny the mailman on a popular sitcom. Now, Ron is enjoying the sweet taste of success in season two of the Showtime drama series that follows standups working at a comedy club called Goldie’s in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Ron Shack was a struggling comedian who was so broke that he was living in a closet-an actual closet-with his best friend Eddie Zeidel during season one of I’m Dying Up Here. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |