Jeff Daniels Finds A Complicated Balance In ‘Newsroom,’ ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Sequel and Music Career (Exclusive Interview) – HNGN

by Micheal Lello

Jeff Daniels, the star of 1994 comedy “Dumb and Dumber,” as well its recent sequel “Dumb and Dumber To” and the hit HBO series “The Newsroom,” has made it his career mission to search for roles that force him to demonstrate his full range of skills. At 59 years of age, and after more than 30 years in show business, Daniels feels he’s finally accomplished that balance.

And it all snapped into shape in the span of just one week.

“It couldn’t have worked out any better for me, because I always wanted to show range over the course of a career in order to create as many jobs as possible, because (Daniels’ wife) Kathleen and I moved to Michigan in 1986 to raise our kids, and I thought the only way for me to pull that off and stay in the movie business was to have range,” Daniels says in an exclusive interview with HNGN. “So that drove the decision to get ‘Dumb And Dumber,’ the first one, and then over the course of a career, all the other roles – ‘Gettysburg,’ ‘Squid and the Whale’ and various other things. And along comes ‘Newsroom,’ and then the sequel to ‘Dumb and Dumber’?

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