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When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
Andrew Rannells
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Andrew Rannells
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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Andrew Scott Rannells
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At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
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Girls was the first television show I got to be a part of, and that was here in New York. Getting to work with Lena Dunham, and to work with HBO and Judd Apatow, and then being a big fan of Ryan Murphy, I couldn't have asked for a better opportunity than this.
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As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.
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I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.
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I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.
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I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.
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I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
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If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.
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I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.
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I was interested in being part of interesting stories. As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of.
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I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.
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My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?
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Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
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I love doing both theater and television.
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As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
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I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.
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So much of being an actor is trying to force yourself into these roles and sometimes it's a good fit, and sometimes it's not a good fit... you have to get clear about what it is that you do and not try to be a bunch of other people. Not try to be that guy or try to play that part find the roles that you do well.
Andrew Rannells
I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of The Book of Mormon . And Girls felt very much the same way - there was an excitement about it as we were doing it I knew it was something special.
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