The emergency character you forgot, he is always sunny in the star of Philadelphia Glenn Howrton played
The story on the start of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is that it was a bite production maintained by three young amateur actors. The co-creators Glenn Howrton, Rob Mac and Charlie Day only worked with $ 100 and a dream, and they miraculously transformed this dream into a successful sitcom. The promotion of this inspiring story of the oppressed is the main role of Howrton on “That ’80s Show”, a 2002 attempt to take advantage of the popularity “that’ 70s show”. The show crashed and burned in a single season, but it was not so bad; Howrton could not afford the professional camera they used for the pilot “It’s Always Sunny” due to his pay check in the canceled series.
But after playing in “that ’80s show” and before starting “It’s Always Sunny”, Howrton won a role on “ER”, a successful medical program that reigned NBC from 1994 to 2009. It was hardly a main role, and that did not yet make him a star, but it was always a big problem. This is another reminder that, as ambitious as making their own show from zero, the creators “It’s Always Sunny” were not as green in the industry in 2005 as many assumed it.
Rob Mac, who also played on “ER”, who played a unique character (a random firefighter) later in the same season as Howrton. Their co-stars Kaitlin Olson and Charlie Day never appeared in the medical show, but at least Day was able to play a unique bad boy character in a 2001 episode of “Law & Order”. The legal dramatic series seems to be better suited to Charlie than a medical series, given its natural affinity for bird law.
Glenn Howrton does not really consider himself a comic actor
“ER” was one of the first projects that Howrton reserved after the flop of “That ’80s Show”, and the role was a notable change in comedy. Dr. Nick Cooper is a very serious person dealing with a constant dam of heavy materials; This is the kind of intense and dramatic role that Howrton likes to play, but after “uh”, he should wait almost 20 years before he could do something similar with “Blackberry”.
“I have never considered myself a comic actor,” revealed Howrton in an interview in 2020. “I always liked to do comedy – I guess I could say enough that I had the impression of being good enough in this area – but it was not my goal to be in comedy or to spend as much from my career in comedy as me.”
Developing on his role “Er”, Howrton said: “So yes, it was one of the first things I did. It was like an arc of six episodes, and it was super exciting and also scary …” I don’t do what I do. The point where the show extended the script for his character halfway. But even if no spectator was a complaint regarding his performance, the scriptwriters of “emergencies did not continue it as regular. As Howrton explained:
“It’s so weird, because when you are a young actor, any job is really, really big. Do you know what I mean? And it was like” wow, I’m going to do three episodes of Er! “And I said to myself:” that’s it, guy, I did it! “… And then it turned into six episodes, and I said to myself:” Oh guy, they could make me a regular series! “And then they did not do it.”
But although Howrton never returned to play a doctor full time, at least he had the pleasure of playing an EMT in an episode “It’s Always Sunny” more than 20 years later. Dennis Reynolds was perhaps not as professional as Dr Cooper was, but at least he had fun while the concert lasted.
