You were reportedly making $1.7 million an episode by the end of Raymond. Does being rich make you more choosy? Yes. Yeah. I enjoyed watching Parenthood, and I called the showrunner Jason Katims up. I left a message: “Hey, I’m loving what you’re doing and I’m unemployed, and whatever my agent tells you it’s going to cost, I will do much better than.” And sure enough, they took me up on it.
Is there a threat to your dignity doing that? I wasn’t a no-name begging for a part. Although I’m very insecure, so there’s no way I thought I belonged on Parenthood. And when I was on it, I learned my lesson about looking on the Internet, because for all the people that loved me, there was just as many who said, “What the F is he doing there?!”