Kutner And Kal Go To White House - Page 2
Will you actually be working in the White House?
PENN: This particular office is in the executive building. The White House has two buildings: the actual White House and an old Navy building called the Old Executive Office.
Are you there as long as Obama's in office?
PENN: A lot of that stuff is up in the air. This is a relatively recent development.
Safe to say you're taking a huge pay cut?
PENN: Oh, yeah. There's not a lot of financial reward in these jobs. But, obviously, the opportunity to serve in a capacity like this is an incredible honor.
He goes on to say that he isn't necessarily retiring from acting, but taking a bit of a hiatus for a while to pursue this new avenue in his life.
And y'know...as ticked as the departure of the character makes me (I really liked Kutner, he was one of my favorites), I have to say good on Kal Penn for not only talking the talk but walking the walk. I can't say as I necessarily like where he is going, but at least he is putting his money where his mouth is, not just flapping his yapper about how much he hates things going on in politics but never actually does anything about it. I think that transcends political parties and ideology. Entirely too many celebs like to spout off their half-baked ideas about how stuff ought to change; but put them in an actual Washington office where there are no fawning sycophants and yes-men and groupies to scratch their every itch, and they'd wither away like a hothouse flower in a penguin colony at the South Pole.
So, to get back to the show, it will be interesting to see just how this plays out over the rest of this season. I wish they would not have killed off the character, maybe made him attempt it but not succeed and then cart him off to a mental hospital for recovery or something, but maybe there's a story arc going on here that needed this to happen.
(I still think it should have been Thirteen.)
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