God knows we can always use another quirky comedy in our (after)lives.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Youre deciding whether to take this role.
Youd be crazy if you didnt do it!
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Ive been a fan of Simons writing.
What surprised you about the afterlife?Its highly bureaucratic.
How would you describe that establishment?Heres the thing.
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Theres a part that does not sound great.
But then most of the time, it transpires that he really doesnt know whats going on.
I think thats one of the things that Craig becomes slightly disillusioned with at first.
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Craig seems interested in Eliza.
Will they or wont they?
So theres part of him that is uncertain where the line of this new friendship begins and ends.
This afterlife comedy enters an orbit also occupied byThe Good PlaceandForever.
Theres room to have a lot of fun.
Craig is in the business of answering prayers.
When was the last time that you, in your own life, prayed for divine intervention?Oooh!
That would be a long, long, long time ago.
Sorry, its such a heavy answer to your light question.
What was the last prayer that you answered yourself from aHarry Potterfan?
[Ponders for a few seconds] Oh!
And I said, Yeah, absolutely.
So thats the closest thing Ive done to doing a good thing for aHarry Potterfan recently.
I was blissfully unaware that this big whole thing had transpired.
You healed a riftThats probably overstating it slightly, but yes, Ill give myself that.
Owen Wilson was originally attached to play God inMiracle Workers.
But in terms of the actual character or the story, nothing changed, nothing shifted.
We really landed on our feet there.
Tell us one thing youve learned from working with Steve.Okay, heres one.
you’ve got the option to pronounce his surname either Boo-shemi or Boo-semi.
Hes fine either way?I did not know that.
Im just like, Wait, there must be a way to say it.
And hes like, No, either is basically fine.
I was like, Oh, okay, cool.
One of those arguments in the world is how you pronounce that surname and everybodys right.
you might just go through the world now, pronouncing it however you like.
There isnt really a pattern.
I dont like to sit around for too long, doing nothing.
So I pretty much have always stuck to that, and its proven really fruitful.
Does it come with a little bit of apprehension?
But discovering that on set with those people was so much fun.
Maybe a possible misconception about you is how interested in comedy you are.
The medium doesnt so much matter.
Hopefully people get to see me being stupid and funny in this show.
