Chris Pratt wasn’t crying on the Parks & Recreation set, he was just allergic to jerks.
Which is why when it came to the character of Jerry Gergich—who was often the butt of every joke on the beloved sitcom—he always made sure that actor Jim O’Heir, the man behind the character, was okay.
Now, almost 10 years off the air, it’s something Jim himself remembers fondly, as he detailed in his new memoir Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles and Parks and Recreation.
“I remember you, particularly more than some others, being worried about some of the Jerry bits being…mean,” Jim says in a conversation with Chris in the book, per Entertainment Weekly. “I remember you saying, ‘Jimmy, you okay with these?’… Do you remember that feeling at all?”
To which Chris replied, “I do. I was concerned in some of those moments because I care about you and I love you, and I knew that there were some jokes that were, like, mean. But meaner than they were funny.”
