“They’re just going to think that’s what 2000 was like.

I don’t know what the experience would be like to watch something from 20 years ago.

That’s insane to me.”

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The cast of ‘Freaks and Geeks.'.Chris Haston/NBC

For me it was all just the past, you know what I mean?"

“I don’t take much pleasure in watching myself,” he says.

“I watch the stuff usually once when it comes out and then I leave it behind.”

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He’ll always be grateful for how that show launched his career, though.

It was this really amazing cast before we really knew anything.

It sort of informed everything I did since."

Some of his favorite memories involved learning how to do improv for some takes.

And that led the way to the movies that we did after."