{"id":719524,"date":"2026-04-03T23:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nick-offerman-is-showing-a-new-side-in-margos-got-money-troubles\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:50:16","slug":"nick-offerman-is-showing-a-new-side-in-margos-got-money-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nick-offerman-is-showing-a-new-side-in-margos-got-money-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Offerman Is Showing a New Side in ‘Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tNick Offerman knows he has a type. Since his mid-career breakout as Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation<\/em>, the Illinois native has cornered the market on a certain brand of deadpan, handy, emotionally removed yet gruffly lovable steak eater. Offerman has happ<\/a>ily leaned into that persona himself, but as often happens with iconic roles, any type tends to belie greater depth \u2014 and it\u2019s certainly the case with Offerman, given his origins in Chicago theater and his range of work in indie films, that there\u2019s long been more than meets the mustache.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Last of Us <\/em>changed things. In one 2023 episode of HBO\u2019s apocalyptic drama, Offerman beautifully charted a standalone queer romance over decades opposite Murray Bartlett, going on to win a guest-acting Emmy for his wrenching turn. The industry started seeing him differently; peers and colleagues would commend his work there. This dynamic started changing the shape of the offers coming his way \u2014 arguably culminating in Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles<\/em>, premiering April 15 on AppleTV+.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pedigreed new dramedy from Emmy winner David E. Kelley stars Oscar nominees Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning as dysfunctional single mother and daughter. Their relationship enters a dramatic new phase when the latter \u2014 also single, barely getting by with ambitions to become a writer \u2014 gets pregnant after sleeping with her married professor and decides to keep the baby. The tension is escalated when Fanning\u2019s Margo chooses to make ends meet by cultivating a following on OnlyFans.<\/p>\n

\n\tOfferman enters the picture as Margo\u2019s estranged father, Jinx, a retired pro wrestler and recovering addict. His experience as a flamboyant performer, combined with his absence from much of Margo\u2019s life, makes him an unexpected mentor for his daughter when she needs one most. That relationship allows Offerman to deliver one of his most surprising, tender performances to date \u2014 one that plays off of the archetype he\u2019s spent years effortlessly playing to, while revealing all of that gloriously messy human stuff that\u2019s long been lurking underneath.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his first interview about the show, Offerman himself acknowledges it feels like new territory. And with it almost out in the world, that\u2019s scaring him a little bit.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNick Offerman in \u2018Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve watched all of <\/strong>Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles<\/em><\/strong>. It was such a nice surprise seeing you in this role.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s the most flavorful role I\u2019ve ever had emotionally, and so I\u2019m pretty excited and also terrified for the world to see me have feelings.<\/p>\n

\n\tSay more about that. What\u2019s the fear?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWell, I have had the good luck to be able to flourish some of the more dependable tools in my toolbox over my career. It was just interesting at age 54 to be like, \u201cOh wow, I\u2019ve never been cast as someone where we care, across a series<\/a>, about his emotional journey.\u201d It\u2019s wonderful as an artist to get to face things that still make me terrified. That seemed like a very daunting challenge. To face off professionally and artistically with Elle and Michelle made me feel wonderfully like a freshman, and I still have a lot to live for.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhy do you think they thought of you for it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tPeople always ask me questions about Ron Swanson and his effect on popular culture, and I enjoy the answer I came up with, which was: The clown is not aware from behind the makeup of why the children are crying. I was in Budapest shooting Death by Lightning <\/em>for Netflix, which was also an incredibly gratifying and enjoyable job, when this offer came in. It had every aspect: David E. Kelley show, hot novel, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman. Shoots in Los Angeles. Former pro wrestler, everything \u2014 really delicious role.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pitch came just with this resplendent banquet of dishes. I was like, \u201cWhat am I missing here? What guy in the business is not killing for this part? This is the best part on TV for a guy.\u201d I suppose Mother Nature gave me this body that could become a convincing former pro wrestler. And thankfully, my work in The Last of Us<\/em>, particularly,showcased that I have hopefully enough range to cover the dramatic side of the character. Because I\u2019m a human being with insecurities and I own a mirror, I\u2019d be on set and people would say nice things to me about my work that day and I would say, \u201cWell, thank you. I\u2019m glad I\u2019m not fucking it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYou won an Emmy for <\/strong>The Last of Us<\/em><\/strong>, which did track the kind of emotional arc you were referring to earlier \u2014 only, over a single episode. Was that the beginning, maybe, of this new chapter?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAs a student of life and a student of this art form, it just makes me very grateful that I\u2019ve made the right gut decisions to lead me to where [Last of Us <\/em>creator] Craig Mazin thought I was the right person to deliver that script. When I watch the episodes of Margo<\/em>, I\u2019m terrified. I have a sour stomach, I have terrible butterflies. It\u2019s interesting. I can\u2019t be objective at all. I can definitely enjoy everything about it, although the fallible human in me watches it and it\u2019s like, \u201cI think this is great, but could I be wrong? Is that just because I want<\/em> it to be great? How is this pace? How is this tone?\u201d It means so much to me; I\u2019ve spent so much of myself creating a beautiful sculpture and it\u2019s going to be unveiled, and I\u2019m just terrified, up all night thinking, \u201cAre they going to get it or am I going to die a frustrated artist?\u201d That\u2019s why I feel like there was a general<\/a> approbation of my work in The Last of Us<\/em> when I first met Michelle Pfeiffer and we began doing scenes. She said some incredibly nice things to me about my work in that, and I still have to take a deep breath and say, \u201cOkay, Michelle Pfeiffer sincerely gave me these compliments.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it comes to creating this sculpture, as you call it, you\u2019ve got a lot of physical stuff to work with in playing a former wrestler and recovering addict. What goes into embodying that for you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIf I\u2019m not grilling meat in the scene, then I probably need to do some homework. Even now as we speak, I\u2019m preparing to go work on a movie with Alex Garland for which I have some intense voice work and physical work to do. When I got this job, I immedia<\/a>tely got ahold of this amazing trainer in town called Grant L. Roberts, who transforms people. We made a plan and I was like, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m going to work out. I\u2019m going to put on as much muscle as I can, but not go through Marvel Superhero School because he\u2019s a former wrestler with addiction issues, so I don\u2019t want to look like John Cena or something.<\/p>\n

\n\tI grew up an athlete. My dad was an incredible coach and athlete. And so I understand that if I want to start on the basketball team next year, I start dribbling today. And my wife [Megan Mullally] is a prodigy. She\u2019s always been the kid with her talent and her beauty and her singing voice. She\u2019s always been the kid that you\u2019re like, \u201cOkay, let\u2019s put on a show.\u201d know that I\u2019m not going to show up and everyone\u2019s going to say, \u201cOh my God, we\u2019re going to throw roses at you.\u201d I use my work ethic and I do my best to make a physical transformation.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth the book and show take a very nuanced, unsensationalized approach to OnlyFans and sex work. What did you make of the material?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s probably my favorite sort of thematic issue in the book, addressing me the age old feminist question of how we consume, to speak in generalizations, sex work in our society versus how we view it and judge it socially. I am such a huge fan of Rufi Thorpe, and I\u2019ve read all of her novels now, and I love the questions that she poses. That sensibility is handled so nicely. My character has knee jerk reactions, superficial reactions, and then is given the opportunity to look at the whole playing field and say, wait a second, \u201cAm I John Lithgow in Footloose<\/em> looking at this issue through societal eyes or through the dogma or tradition of family values? I have a single daughter who\u2019s in trouble, who has found a way to provide support to her child and herself in a way that I\u2019m failing at right now that isn\u2019t hurting anybody.\u201d I love that shift that my character is allowed as an aspiring alpha male to say, \u201cI\u2019m going to come down on the side of love and family and not social judgment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tOfferman with Thaddea Graham, who plays Margo\u2019s roommate Susie. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThis is also a different kind of role for Elle, very vulnerable, and you guys have such terrific chemistry. Did you connect over entering uncharted territory, in your own ways, together?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the offer of the show came in, that was the ribeye of the meal: to play Elle\u2019s dad and to do a series with Elle \u2014 who, from her show The Great<\/em>, Megan and I had declared the world\u2019s greatest young actress. We just hold her in such high regard. And so it was fascinating getting to work with her because she is so effortlessly professional. She\u2019s so young and accomplished. I\u2019m not a rookie myself, but quite often I would just really appreciate the sort of battle toughness that she had in attacking a lot of this material where scenes would be difficult for internal or external reasons, or a combination thereof.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWe just met Nick and Elle, and our characters also have a lot of estrangement and a lot of weirdness between them. But here we have the narrative of these eight episodes: Let\u2019s link arms and let\u2019s get this motherfucker done.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019ve highlighted the breadth of the show a few times \u2014 getting to tell this larger, open-ended story. But you\u2019ve done that before, obviously, going back to <\/strong>Parks and Rec<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI feel I\u2019ve learned to imagine the entire narrative of a world, and it was easily learned with Parks and Recreation<\/em>: They looked at me and took my attributes and characteristics and created something so much more sublime and effective and enjoyable than if NBC had come to me and said, carte blanche, \u201cNick, write your dream role,\u201d where I would\u2019ve come up with something so much more adolescent and stupid. You know what I mean? That\u2019s the part of me that I would\u2019ve just created. The show would\u2019ve been called \u201cMy Id.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI show up with my shovel and I\u2019m like, \u201cShow me where to dig and tell me what you want. You want a hole, you want a trench? I do it all. I can shovel like a motherfucker.\u201d I just love to be there with my shovel and be of value to them, have them say, \u201cWe heard about your shoveling, and they were right. You dug very well.\u201d And so hopefully I\u2019ll be back to dig more holes next year on Margo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou went straight into <\/strong>Margo <\/em><\/strong>from <\/strong>Death by Lightning<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 which was a very different physical task.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Death by Lightning<\/em>, I was supposed to do a role in an indie movie playing a dad dying of cancer. It was this really wonderful script, and I was committed to it. I was producing it. We agreed on Death by Lightning<\/em> that I was in a fat suit \u2014 Chester Arthur was considerably more porky than me \u2014 and just as we were getting ready to start in Budapest, the cancer movie fell apart and went away. I no longer had this requirement to stay skinny-ish, and so I gladly packed on about 20 pounds. There\u2019s an Austrian dish called a crispy pork knuckle that was a popular tavern meal in Budapest. I\u2019m glad because, among the successes of that show, I really felt like I was successfully fat looking. Immediately at the end of Death by Lightning<\/em>, then I was like, \u201cOkay, now we\u2019ve got to take that weight off and turn it into some beefy shoulders [for Margo<\/em>].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was fun seeing you in that milieu, getting to do the full period transformation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t[Creator] Mike Makowsky generously, again, said he only thought of me as soon as he started writing it. It\u2019s a funny thing because a lot of actors, I think, would have a tough time finding a compliment in that \u2014 this guy\u2019s a real hedonistic indulgent piece of shit. (Laughs<\/em>) \u201cI couldn\u2019t think of anybody but you\u201d is a pretty left-handed compliment. But I have a healthy enough self image that I can appreciate the difference between my true character and what I can portray.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd I saw you\u2019re doing a musical with Megan next. You guys work together often, but that feels like a whole other exciting level.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI was glad to have a period of four months to try and get some of that work done. And now Megan and I are about to do this musical together, which she\u2019s been workshopping for many years. It\u2019s from the creators of Urinetown and Spelling Bee, both writers and music, and I\u2019m just over the moon about this show. I\u2019m so glad it\u2019s being produced. I have a fun part as well, but it\u2019s very much Megan\u2019s show. She\u2019s the lead.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019re playing Eugene O\u2019Neill, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYeah. I appreciate that since I\u2019ve been on TV, I bring a certain value to selling tickets at a theater, and I can understand that superficially. But on stage, I\u2019ve also done some of these workshops of the show. So I\u2019ve been involved and getting to work with these Broadway professionals. Again, my skillset is allowing me to ride in this clown car with a bunch of the greats. Their talents are so astonishing to me, and I can appreciate, \u201cOkay, no one\u2019s hiring me to perform a Tony Award-winning aria,\u201d but hopefully I will bring my shovel to bear on this campaign while they dance circles around me. As long as I get to keep showing up and they give me a sandwich, I\u2019ll keep minding my matters.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMargo\u2019s Got Money Troubles <\/em>premieres April 15 on AppleTV+.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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