“For some of these roles,” Woo says, “you have to go all in.” She wanted the actors, particularly those still unfamiliar with the show’s hard-R-rated absurdism, to feel comfortable working blue without worrying about who might be listening. While casting I Think You Should Leave, Woo considered getting the production’s rented Santa Monica office space soundproofed. “When the right actors can get that timing right and they understand the tone of it, that’s when the gold comes out.” Bob McDuff Wilson in ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Screenshots via Netflix “You’re pulling actors from all directions of life,” casting director Leslie Woo says. After all, no one suspects the grandpa in the fleece vest. These old guys are responsible for many of I Think You Should Leave’s biggest, most startling laughs. Think Ruben Rabasa’s heavily memed focus group alpha dog, Biff Wiff’s cartoonishly ultraviolent version of Santa Claus, Richard Wharton’s sexually explicit Claire’s ear-piercing testimonial weirdo, and Wilson’s burger-obsessed mentor. And finally served up a chance to wreak comedic havoc, they’ve grabbed hold of it and eaten it up like Dylan’s burger. The show turns the spotlight on those whom Hollywood rarely allows to be under it. But veteran character actors are I Think You Should Leave’s secret weapon. “I was voted the most comical in my high school yearbook.”Ī Ranking of Every Sketch in ‘I Think You Should Leave’Ī lesser series might’ve made the octogenarian the butt of the joke, or ignored him altogether. “I was born to do that,” says Wilson, whose wife Marion helped him record his audition at home. For Wilson, who’s had dozens of small parts on television dramas and in commercials, it’s the kind of role that he’s been waiting decades to play. (This is the part when he says “shit.”) And in a final flourish, Wilson delivers a punch line that’s too dirty for him to even explain to his grandkids. “That’s where my grandson said, ‘Well, that’s probably the way he eats, anyway,’” Wilson says.Īfter housing Dylan’s burger, Professor Yurabay veers into even stranger territory, threatening to blackmail his upset students. As his dinner companions watch in befuddled silence, he savors every single bite, looks to his left, looks to his right, then deliberately pops the last morsel into his mouth-a highlight reel–worthy windmill dunk. “Dylan, I’m gonna eat the whole thing,” Yurabay declares. And when Dylan finally asks whether he wants a bite, he takes it and never gives it back. He eventually grabs the burger off the plate, mimes eating it, and puts it back-all while insisting, “I’m joking!” as the rest of the table looks on with increasing horror. Within moments, he’s gone from paying attention to the conversation to openly coveting what his protégé ordered. Like most ITYSL sketches, things start remarkably normally before descending into utter chaos-in this case, the descent begins when the food comes and Yurabay eyes what’s on Tim Robinson’s character Dylan’s plate. In the opening sketch of the third episode, Wilson plays Professor Yurabay, a beloved business school mentor his former students have invited to a restaurant. “I said, ‘Well you better be glad they took the other stuff out.’ … I probably wouldn’t have been able to come home.” “I had never used profanity around my kids,” says Wilson, who’s 85 years old. The family of the retired sixth-grade teacher/longtime actor was shocked. “She said, ‘Dad, your granddaughter called and said, “You know, granddad used the word ‘shit,’”’” Wilson says. She’d just heard from her daughter, who’d caught Wilson’s appearance as a burger-snatching dinner guest on the Netflix sketch show. Soon after the second season of I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson premiered in early July, Bob McDuff Wilson got a phone call from his daughter.
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