Is Will Arnett No Longer "Cool" Due to His Matured Role On 'Up All Night?'

[Brian Damage]

"I think that it explores the idea of people waiting until they're almost 40 to start making adult decisions. It's something that a lot of people can relate to," Arnett says. "When you start have to make serious decisions, you realize the first thing that suffers is your cool factor. So even if it's having kids or having a job where you can't do certain things because you're like, aww man, I can't do that because I have to go to my jobby job, it's like, alright, now I'm not this free-wheeling cool guy."

Playing Chris has been a nice change of pace, Arnett admits. Though Chris makes plenty of questionable decisions, they come more quietly, born of irrational fear or desperation. His character finds himself in more relatable scenarios -- how he can revive his love life, for example -- than the oddball dilemmas GOB faced in "Arrested Development," like how to get back in the good graces of his fellow magicians.

"There are a lot of moments where you get to just let things play out as opposed to beating it on the head," Arnett says, comparing is old and new roles. "They each have their own merits. Getting to play that character GOB was crazy fun, as fun as it looked. But then, conversely, playing this character, getting to let scenes kind of breathe and happen and have real conversations -- Christina and I, our characters get to have this stuff happen around very real situations and we have real conversations about them and that's fun, too. It has its own merits."

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