After 20 years of working Paddy’s Pub with the gang, Glenn Howerton has had his share of tension about being a part of the longest-running live-action comedy collection within the US.
The actor, who performs poisonous narcissist Dennis Reynolds, admitted he was fearful It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia would “put on out our welcome” across the time Season 12 of the FXX comedy went into manufacturing in 2016.
“I used to be fearful that perhaps, we had type of peaked or one thing, and I simply was like, we’ve been doing this for a very long time and I feel I used to be additionally anxious,” he stated at PaleyLive’s twentieth anniversary celebration for the present, in line with Leisure Weekly.
“I had not discovered but how one can stretch myself and have the ability to do different issues that I wished to do with my profession outdoors of the present,” added Howerton. “I simply hadn’t discovered how to try this but, and I used to be aching to do different issues and so I used to be beginning to really feel slightly boxed in, frankly.”
Howerton emphasised that he “by no means misplaced any appreciation for the present,” including, “I simply thought like perhaps we must always—after which they have been like, ‘We don’t need to finish it,’ and I used to be like, ‘Oh okay, properly I can’t cease you.’ After which after that, I booked A.P. Bio.”
Charlie Day, Danny DeVito, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson and Glenn Howerton at PaleyLive: ‘It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia’ twentieth Anniversary Celebration! on July 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
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He beforehand brought about hypothesis he was leaving the present when Dennis abandoned the gang after discovering out he fathered a baby on the finish of Season 12, returning for Seasons 13 and 14 as an actor, however not as a part of the writers’ room.
Though the cliffhanger got here across the time he started filming his NBC sitcom A.P. Bio (2018-’21), Howerton clarified on Twitter on the time that “whether or not Dennis comes again or not has nothing to do” along with his different present.
Howerton co-created It’s All the time Sunny with co-star Rob McElhenney, reuniting in Season 17, which premieres July 9 with ‘The Gang F***s Up Abbott Elementary’, the second half of the present’s two-part crossover occasion with ABC’s Abbott Elementary.
