Jeff Hiller on Theology, Improv and Finally Landing in the Spotlight

About this episode

Most people wait for the world to tell them they're ready. Jeff Hiller waited for himself, for over twenty years, while everyone else assumed he already knew when to quit. In this episode of Love, Take Two, Jeff takes us back through the decades before the breakthrough, temping between auditions, teaching improv for free, and telling himself the work still counted even when no one else could see it. His resume now includes an Emmy win for Somebody Somewhere, a second Emmy nomination this year, and a memoir about the twenty-year road it took to get there. None of it came easily, and none of it came on schedule. Jeff gets into what it actually felt like to turn 40 with a career that hadn't…