Earl creator worked fast food during strike

February 15th, 2008 | Category: My Name Is Earl, WGA Strike

Here’s a story that’s bound to bring a smile to your face (it did mine). During the protracted, agonizing Writer’s Guild strike, at least one Hollywood scribe chose not to lounge by the pool and wait it out. My Name Is Earl creator, Greg Garcia, decided to “get back in touch” with the TV viewers of America. He took a job at a fast-food restaurant, never letting on to his fellow employees — or anyone else — that he was an Emmy-winning writer/producer. As a cashier and occasional janitor, Greg spent the month of January rubbing elbows with the real world. You

might wonder, why would he do it?

His reply is simple: “I’ve wanted to do a book about taking different jobs and what it was like to do them,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “This was the first. It may be a while before I do the moment. But it’s just about the fact that we habitable behind gates and work behind gates, and as a writer you start to lose touch with the audience. You start running out of life experience.”

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Original post by Allison Waldman

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