And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I was fortunate to be there at a time when that was right.
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It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.
Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.
And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.
I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.
'The Inbetweeners' would have been a success with a totally different cast because the scripts are good - so while we were fortunate enough to be cast in it, we feel we still have a lot to prove.
But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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