In an interview with Bill Maher on Maher's 'Club Random' podcast, the actor who starred on the sitcom for nine seasons, explained that he spent 'several years' on the series unhappy because it didn't feel like 'enough.'
He went on to explain that he desired a successful film career at the time: “I was thinking about, ‘Why am I not a movie star? Why am I not the next Jack Black or the next Will Ferrell? How come I can’t have a movie career? Why don’t I have this development deal?'”I was clutching and grasping at, okay, I was making hundreds of thousands. I wanted millions, and I was a TV star, but I wanted to be a movie star. It was never enough.
“I think the word you use ‘therapeutic’ is really interesting because I can’t tell you how many times a day online and in person I hear from people ‘Thank you for, the laughter that it gave me, that it gave my family, healed us during COVID,'” Wilson said. He noted that when he originally signed up for the show, he was more concerned with being able to buy a house and “wasn’t thinking about giving laughter as a therapeutic remedy and a balm and a salve to a hurting populace.”In May, Wilson debuted his Peacock show,
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