In Always Great, Awards Insider speaks with Hollywood’s greatest undersung actors in career-spanning conversations. In this installment, Ike Barinholtz reflects on his journey on TV and film, leading to his two big comedy hits currently on TV.
When Ike Barinholtz shows up, you remember him—even if he’s not playing the lead character. He’s the tracksuit-wearing nurse Morgan Tookers on The Mindy Project, the Russian baseball player Ivan Dochenko in Eastbound & Down, and, most recently, the boisterous movie studio executive Sal Saperstein in Seth Rogen’s new Apple TV+ series, The Studio. “I do have a tendency to play characters that are kind of, I don’t know, stupid or haughty or impulsive,” he tells Vanity Fair. “It does feel like a lot of times that is in my wheelhouse.”
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