Interviewer: They named your character Terry, that's such a coincidence.
Terry: You know, I love it, I love it.
But when everybody's like 'Terry' I'm like hey, who, what?
Oh you mean me?
[Laughs].
It's the coolest thing ever.
I actually met with Dan Gore and MIke Shore a long time before we
even got green lit and they let me know we have this Andy Sanburg show,
it's set in a police station, uh, but what, we want to base this on you.
I thought, 'Oh, this is unique, you know what
I mean, this is really cool.
Like I never had any creators come up to me that way, so I'm telling them
all these facts about me and all this stuff and they basically created me
in a police uniform.
[Laughs].
If I was the Sergeant of a police station, it would be me.
He's a family man, the whole thing, and it really deals
with a lot of things I have to deal with, even with my time in the NFL and
the fears that I had of getting injured.
Now, you kind of come into this show, it's the fears I have of getting hurt
at work...
Interviewer: I was going to say, he's a cop ...[SS]...
Terry: Yeah, as a, as cop.
So it's just so cool to have these guys really dedicate this character and really base it
around me.
I've never had that before, this is a very unique experience.
I don't feel like I'm at work.
I walk in, I'm like me, you know.
Interviewer: Now, in the first episode you and Andre's character kind of
bond, and you're kind of filling him in on the whole precinct.
Does that relationship stay kind of buddy-buddy or is
there some tension that happens?
What happens in the coming episodes?
Terry: Well I have to say, the thing is is that, we run the precinct.
He's the captain, I'm the Sergeant, and I really
want to make him happy.
Because this is the thing, Andy's character, Jacob
Peralta, has been getting away with murder for a long time.
He really is a goof-off.
A very juvenile person.
But he's our best detective.
So, I let him do whatever he wanted.
The other captain didn't care, so it's was like, it was me, I let him go.
So now the captain does, I have to make sure that captain's wishes get
done.
So we are, we're two pees in a pod, you know what I mean?
It's kind of like father, son and Andy Samberg.
[Laughs].
You know?
Interviewer: Do we get to meet the Sargent's family?
Because Mary has kids.
Terry: Uh, we, we, just a little bit.
There's, the good thing that Dan and Mike do about these shows, they give it a
nice little start.
You know, you don't rush in to meet everybody.
You don't know everything until, they, it gives them room for everyone to go.
You learn a little bit more about this guy this week.
A little another fact on this guy, another fact on this
lady.
So there's always something fresh each week, you really don't run out
of experiences.
Interviewer: OK.
And what's it like on set, because I know Andy's a riot,
but then you have Andre, who's a very serious actor doing a comedy.
So what's the set like?
Terry: Well what's weird is that they're actually both opposite.
Andre is a goofball.
And I'm going "Wait a minute, this is Andre Braugher from Glory,"
and then Andy is back there, "I'm studying my lines, I'm working very hard.
This delivery, how do I deliver this?"
And I'm like, wait a minute.
This is a total switcheroo right here.
But, I'm thankful, because I work with a lot of young comedians who never really put work
into the craft.
And Andy is, he makes it looks easy.
He works so hard that when he's out there, it just
comes out.
And Andre is gravitas incarnate, but at the same time, he gets
it.
It's a joke, it's a comedy, we are still having fun here.
And it's a great balance, it makes everyone three dimensional,
and that's what I love about it.
Interviewer: Okay, what are some of the cases we're going to see in the
episodes?
Terry: Wow.
You know what, I don't know, I don't want to give away too
much.
That's one thing, you will see some of the office romances begin to
start.
And another I want to say, and I want to say this right now.
Chealsea Peretti is a superstar.
Everyone get ready for Chelsea because her life is going to be, it's going to change
after this, because she's one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
YOu don't even know what's going to come out of her mouth.
We're on the set like, "Oh my god, she is just
killing," and she kills it every time.
I think the show always has these wonderful surprises that even we are figuring
out, you know what I mean?
Joe Lo Truglio's character, he's a foodie for real.
And he's always dealing with food in his weird mannerisms and his
co-dependent ways that he has with Jacob.
It's just always so cool, it's so many different things to go
with, what can I say?
You'll see a little bit more of all of us in every
one.
Interviewer: Okay, do you think the writers are going to eventually be
pulling from you?
You, Terry?
Terry: Oh, yeah.
Interviewer: From your character?
Terry: Yeah.
I mean, I am actually an artist.
I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship, so they're
pulling into Terry Jacob's character his art ability.
He's left-handed, right brained, he's a doodler, he sketches, he paints.
It's a really cool way to do this, it's like, uh.
It makes the character a very three-dimensional person.