‘Reboot’ Stars Talk Sitcom’s ‘Scarily Accurate’ Depiction of Hollywood

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Scott Huver “Reboot” creator Steven Levitan admits that having a cast stacked with Hollywood veterans, including Keegan-Michael Key, Judy Greer, Johnny Knoxville, Rachel Bloom and Paul Reiser, was almost like having a second writers’ room when it came to war stories for the show’s inside-Hollywood view of rebooting a beloved, 20-year-old sitcom. “We would just be sitting around talking and then someone would say this, ‘Oh, this reminds me of the time this has happened,’ and then [the writers] refined it in next week’s script,” laughed the “Modern Family” co-creator at the premiere of his new Hulu series, held on the Fox lot that also serves as the backdrop for the show.

Levitan told Variety he doesn’t think the show bites the industry hand that feeds it too hard. “I didn’t feel like I was being mean spirited because I wasn’t trying to be, I wasn’t trying to take anybody down.

We all have to sit around and say and do ridiculous things sometimes in this business,” he explained. “So to dig into that, I thought it was all fair game.” “But when there’s a situation where it calls for some hypocrisy to be pointed out or whatever, I’m not afraid to do that,” he added. “But right now I love this business, I’ve been very fortunate to be in this business and I wanted to do … let’s call it a friendly roast of this business.” Key says he doesn’t just know actors like his character, “I might have been him a little bit when I was younger.” More talented than the show-within-a-show deserved, Key’s Reed Sterling balances his insecurities by name-checking his Harvard acting school cred. “I have not been that actor, but I have met those actors when you sometimes go, ‘So did you want to tell me again where that was that you went to