For Chris Perfetti, “Abbott Elementary” was not just another pandemic-era script on his desk. “I first read the pilot in the spring of 2020, and it was in no small way a profound moment,” he tells …
” was not just another pandemic-era script on his desk. “I first read the pilot in the spring of 2020, and it was in no small way a profound moment,” he tellsThe actor, who plays the enthusiastic, delightfully corny BFF to Quinta Brunson’s Janine in the hit ABC sitcom about public school teachers, was sitting on a park bench in Atlanta, laughing to himself.
As someone who had become familiar with you via “Abbott Elementary,” I couldn’t help but think about how long the monologues are in “King James,” and how different that must be in terms of memorizing lines. I think the play stands on its own and that people will get a lot out of it no matter what’s happening with LeBron, but it’s been pretty wild to see how it’s changed in this incarnation.
I noticed a parallel between your characters in “Abbott Elementary” and “King James,” which is that Jacob and Matt are both well-meaning white liberals who admire Black culture and are sort of on the outside looking into a world in which they want to be accepted. With Jacob particularly, he’s often the butt of the joke and embraces his students labeling him as “corny,” but I think in the wrong actor’s hands, both of those characters could be portrayed as very annoying.
We shoot our show so quickly that I just hold on and trust our brilliant writers, which they make very easy. They fill in the gaps so that any 180 in a relationship is valid, and there’s substance for it in the text. Jacob reveres both of them, and I think it’s a function of the characters spending more time together that the need to impress Gregory has waned slightly. We did 22 episodes in our second season, and the fun of it is subverting people’s expectations.
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