I’m a huge Jeff Daniels admirer — have been for 40 years now, despite his having blown me off for an interview ten years ago. But even if you’re not a huge fan, this is one of the best career-recap recollections I’ve ever seen, and I don’t care if it’s two months old. Every engaging story delivers some kind of choice insight or kernel of wisdom or killer anecdote. (Jack Nicholson on the set of Terms of Endearment: “This isn’t Broadway — this is the pro game.”) I’m very sorry I never caught Daniels in To Kill A Mockingbird, and I apologize for the fact that I’ve never paid the slightest attention to Showtime’s American Rust, a Dan Futterman series that Daniels exec produced and stars in.
