The ‘Not Suitable For Work’ star digs into booking the Mindy Kaling comedy, how Gen Z filmmakers Curry Barker and Kane Parsons have inspired him, Jack Martin knew all about Murray Hill, the New York neighborhood at the center of his latest series. “So many of my friends and people I knew moved to Murray Hill, and they worked in jobs like the ones in the show. And then I didn’t,” the 27-year-old actor tells The Hollywood Reporter on a recent Zoom. “I chose to pursue acting — which was weird, or at least that’s how it was perceived. It was a conscious choice to not go through with that lifestyle.” But then Martin found himself on TikTok, making sketches satirizing the corporate world and the young men that often find themselves working in it. Then came Not Suitable For Work, Hulu’s latest Mindy Kaling offering. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-article-mid-article-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article1","mid-articleX","mid","mid-article"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize([[300,250],[2,2],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Related Stories Lifestyle Hollywood's Top Docs Reveal Their Cosmetic Secrets at THR's A-List Aesthetics Event: "We Have to Be Scientists, Artists, Technicians and Psychologists" TV Why Ella Hunt Is Everywhere Right Now The actor plays Josh Teitelbaum in the Friends-esque comedy about a group of young people living and working in New York. “There’s something funny about choosing to not do that and then ending up in a role that’s where I’m pretending to do it,” he says. Martin had been gunning for the show the minute it was announced, and he even had people in his life telling him he needed to be on the show. “I really wanted to be in it, and I just got really lucky,” he says. The actor’s audition process was likely a good indication of how he’d feel about the rest of the show — he can’t stop hyping up the cast and crew of the series, assuring it’s not a PR response but his genuine feelings about working on the series. “I always call my people when I leave an audition room. I call my parents, my team and my girlfriend, and the first thing I said was, ‘That’s the nicest person in an audition room I’ve ever interacted with,’” Martin says of his now-boss Kaling. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid","mid-article2","mid-articleX"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article2") .addSize([[300,250],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); “She came up to me and said she’d seen all of my videos and that they’re so funny and she loved my audition. She was asking me about myself,” he continues. “She was just so polite and her notes were very thoughtful and generous. She wasn’t intimidating. She wasn’t rude. She was just wonderful. And that’s how she was on set too.” Martin was extra excited when he booked NSFW because he’d been friends with his eventual co-star Will Angus for years. He’d been testing for the role, something he was not trying to get too excited about given the unpredictability of the auditioning process, when his team told him that Angus was the first choice for another role in the series. “I freaked out. I got so excited. They didn’t even know we were friends and had done stuff,” he says. Martin called Angus, who was in Italy shooting Luca Guadagnino’a Artificial, and immediately asked if the other actor wanted to live together. Angus, of course, said yes.