Will Forte
It’s the end of the world as we know it for The Last Man On Earth star
APOCALYPTIC INSPIRATIONS
“There are a bunch of very obvious [ inspirations] that you will think of from the get- go: Omega Man and I Am Legend, 28 Days Later; the first part when he’s walking around the empty streets. But one of the big things to me was my fascination with that show Life After People. I loved that show.”
FUTURE SHOCK
“We pitched the show with the general outline of the whole first season already pretty well thought out, and we certainly had to buckle down and figure out a lot of intricacies and pain in the butt stuff, but the big, bold strokes of the season were already formed. Pretty much every episode ends with a twist, or a cliffhanger, or a new development, so it’s pretty fun.”
THE ENDLESS TICKING CLOCK
“I think I would go insane pretty quickly. Actually, I might last a little while because I get a hyper focus going, so I would probably get into some weird computer game that would take my mind off stuff for a while. But inevitably that would wear off and I would go crazy pretty quickly. I’m starting from a place of near craziness anyway, so it’s debatable that I’m not already there in a land with people.”
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
“I’m used to the experience at Saturday Night Live, where I was an absurd character all the time. But I don’t know that people ever really got to know who the heck I was. I was just the dude in these huge, thick moustaches every week. This is a chance to play a character [ Phil Miller] that’s a little closer to who I am in real life. In a lot of ways, this is a combination of [ my] SNL craziness side and the Nebraska slightly more subdued side.”
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
“A lot of the things that I would do are things that I actually do in the first couple of episodes, a lot of wish fulfilment stuff. It doesn’t take much to make me happy, so if you give me a steamroller and some breakables I’m pretty good... or a flame thrower.”