Here, the 55-year-old actor looks back on some of his most notable roles.
“That was huge, getting that role,” he recalls.
“My mother, grandmother, and sister were in a scene with me,” he says.
Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
“The first thing I did was add up [my salary] for the season.
I was like, ‘Wahoo!
We’re not going to starve.'”
Everett Collection
A lot of them were brothers, cousins, uncles.
But they were all related, so it was great.
They’d come back inside with their arms around each other."
Everett Collection
the dreamy bomb-squad guy in the two-part episode that featured live ammuni-tion inside a patient.
But that’s not allGrey’screatorShonda Rhimesdid for Chandler’s career.
I said, ‘I’m not old enough to play Coach.’
Peter “Hopper” Stone/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images
And of course you know how that turned out."
Friday Night Lights(2006-2011)
From Dylan the bomb-squad guy to Dillon, Texas.
With that Emmy-winning role, Chandler found himself far from the days ofHomefront’s exacting scripts.
Bill Records/NBC
“It was so creative,” he says of the set.
“We had a great writing team, but they would give us leeway to work.”
“He did a lot of work for children’s cancer.”
Warner Bros.
A former volunteer fireman, Chandler felt his instinct kick in.
“[Scorsese] opens the door to his room.
When Scorsese didn’t in fact need saving, they chatted and Chandler landed the part.
Mary Cybulski/Paramount
But when it came time to shoot the movie, nerves once again got to him.
“I wasn’t doing a good job,” he says.
I was being too nice to him out of respect for him as an actor.
Everett Collection
He was very kind, very professional.”
Chandler played Harge, Carol’s increasingly desperate husband.
But the biggest challenge?
Hopper Stone/Warner Bros.
“When I got [Game Night] I was like, ‘Yes!’
Then I was scared to death.
He would do a scene, stop, and you could hear the calculating going on in his head.
Philippe Antonello/NETFLIX
I got paid for acting class that day.”
Now he’d like another comedy, c’mon.
“I am funny,” Chandler says.
“yo print that at the end of this.”
“I came up with the idea that the air is getting thinner.
I tried to give myself a sense of claustrophobia.
“There’s a reason for that.”
