“For me, it was like, ‘I can’t actually endure it anymore,’” Samberg said on a July episode of Hart to Heart. “But I didn’t want to leave.”
“Physically, it was taking a heavy toll on me and I got to a place where I was like I hadn’t slept in seven years basically,” he added. “We were writing stuff for the live show Tuesday night all night, the table read Wednesday, then being told, ‘Now come up with a digital short.’ So, write all Thursday, all Thursday night, don’t sleep, get up, shoot Friday, edit all night Friday night and into Saturday.”
After four days of little sleep, he admitted, “I just kinda fell apart physically.”
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