From Writing to Acting: Navigating the Challenges of a Creative Career

It’s free. I mean, I started writing. Actually, I’m really more of a writer than an actor. And. And started doing daytime animation. And then mad TV, just kids. It’s kind of like Saturday Night Live, but different. Um, and. But we wrote, you know, a lot of our material on that. And, um. And then working on Family Guy, I did voices, but then also wrote. I wrote for shameless. Like, I’d say I’m probably more of a. Yeah, writer. And the writing is the hardest part of anything. It’s so hard, it’s so taxing that to just act is like, oh my god, this is so great. To just show up and it’s not your problem. Um, but. But. But it was. It was, you know, right, the. I did a project called getting on. Yeah. Before Mazel. And that was very challenging cause it was a. A comedy, but there was also some drama and there was a lot of, um. Had to be a little more vulnerable and, uh huh. Three dimensional. And so that was. That was challenging. But now the challenge is marvelous, Mrs. Maisel, is our pages. Our scripts are like a hundred pages and there’s so much dialogue and there’s. And it has to be exactly word perfect. You can’t say the dog. If it’s that dog, it’s. And I’m so bad at it, and it’s so hard. So that’s a huge challenge.