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HORRIBLE BOSS Rob McElhenney as narcissistic ideas man Ian, with some of his Mythic Quest team members.
Rob McElhenney The Mythic Quest co-creator and actor on building real characters and snagging superstar guests
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tary series. That sounds exciting. So, you’re going to have cameras in your face even more than usual, I guess. We already have. We’ve been shoot-
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ing for about three months. It’s so uncomfortable to have cameras around. I don’t have any right now,
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which I’m grateful for. The doc crews tell me, “What? You’re an actor. You should be used to it.” And I’m just not. There’s such a big difference between walking onto a stage and knowing where the camera is at all times and also knowing I have control over what goes into the show. And
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Rob McElhenney co-created and stars in Mythic Quest—the Apple TV+ comedy series set in the dysfunctional workplace of a fictional gaming company, playing the visionary, if narcissistic, idea man behind the titular online roleplaying game. When he isn’t making hit shows like this or It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, McElhenney is busy raising two sons with wife Kaitlin Olson, his Sunny co-star. And he recently took a side job—buying a Welsh soccer club with his pal Ryan Reynolds. FX just announced plans to air a docuseries on McElhenney and Reynolds’s football venture.