

Which is fitting, since, when he’s not acting or writing books (he has published five, with a sixth in the works), or at home doing jigsaws, Offerman can be found – also like Ron Swanson – at his wood shop, a business in LA that he launched in 2001 when he was still a struggling actor, and where he now has four employees producing everything from dining tables and shelving units to handcrafted canoes. Wearing black-rimmed specs and sporting Lemmy-style mutton chops, he has the rugged, outdoorsy look of a man who, given an axe, would make light work of a pile of logs.

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Offerman – whose recent roles have included the real-life porn producer Milton Ingley in Pam and Tommy the American football quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s adoptive dad in fictionalised drama series Colin in Black and White and a lonely prepper in HBO’s zombie series The Last Of Us – is talking to me from the guest room of his and Mullally’s home in Los Angeles. We are maintaining a relationship, like anybody.” As Offerman tells it, “the fanbase began to absolutely shit themselves … It was all very over the top given we are just a couple of expectorating human beings who happen to have gotten some lucky acting jobs. An early scene saw them breaking the furniture while kissing in a diner before hightailing it to a nearby motel, shedding clothes as they went. Mullally was cast as Swanson’s ex-wife, Tammy, with whom Ron has a lust/hate relationship. Photograph: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images ‘Like winning the lottery’ … Offerman with Amy Poehler in Parks and Recreation.
