When Nick Offerman was a young man, what he wanted more than anything was to succeed in the Chicago theatre scene. “That was my life’s dream,” he deadpans. “It hasn’t worked out. I say let go of your dreams because you can find happiness no matter what.”

Plan B seems to have worked out OK. Offerman’s career has at least three distinct streams. His gruff, lugubrious voice is familiar to families from animated movies like The Lego Movie and Sing . As an actor, conversely, he’s come to specialise in cranks and extremists: an authoritarian in Civil War , a survivalist in The Last of Us , and now an anti-government agitator in Christian Swegal’s debut movie Sovereign . On top of that, he’s a genial Midwestern sage who goes on speaking tours and writes bestselling books about hist

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