MacGruber TV Show: Ryan Phillippe and Joseph Lee Anderson on Will Forte Being Fearless

With MacGruber blessing our timeline with eight new thirty-minute episodes on Peacock, I recently got to speak with Ryan Phillippe and Joseph Lee Anderson about making the series. They talked about why Will Forte is the most fearless actor they’ve worked with, what it was like reading the scripts for the first time, how you’ll laugh a lot while watching the eight episodes, which of their friends and family were the most excited they were part of MacGruber, and more. In addition, they each revealed what someone should watch if they’ve never seen anything they’ve done. If you haven’t seen the trailer, the series picks up ten years after the events of the film, where MacGruber has been locked up in prison for the brutal killing of Dieter von Cunth (Val Kilmer). But when a mysterious villain from his past, Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane), threatens the world, MacGruber must reassemble his old team, Vicki St. Elmo (Wiig) and Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe), in order to defeat the forces of evi