![]() ![]() Look, I'm a comedic actor, I'm a comedian. Then in September I'm back in comedy with Kevin Hart doing a movie called "Night School." ![]() Well, it’s funny, this is a very straight role. In March, I have a movie coming out called " Midnight Sun," which is a very dramatic role. So my experience has always been pretty good, I've got to say.Īre you going back to being funny now since the movie is coming out? When it comes to telling a military story, they are all very interested in getting it right and being fair. Yet, everybody I've come across, this is my experience, has been very respectful of the military. Here’s my experience: Hollywood probably is a little more liberal than your average. In your own experience, do people in show business fit that description or is there a wide variety of views just like you’d see in most any other job? There’s a perception from some of our readers that everyone in Hollywood is a liberal who’s lining up to do George Clooney’s laundry. I could probably do something almost every day, but I’ve got to make a living, so I do what I can when I can. I try to support as much as I can and do what I can. There are more and I'm sure I'm going to hear about it because I'm probably forgetting someone, but there are many organizations out there doing great work. Team Rubicon, Got Your 6, Boot Campaign, Warriors and Quiet Waters. I teamed up with We Are the Mighty to do that. I have my own golf tournament which supports the Semper Fi Fund. So I've tried to partner with as many of those as I can. I’ve found certain organizations that I think do amazing work, are doing the right things, and the results speak for themselves. I get approached often by various veterans’ organizations and I try to support the ones I can. I don’t think I’ll ever be out of the military, so to speak. I retired from the Marine Corps in 2013, but you know it’s in your bloodstream, it’s who you are. ![]() You're involved in a lot of veteran charity work. Rob talked to before the 2017 Army-Navy Game. It’s an honor to get to do that and hopefully I’ll see him at the premiere and hopefully he’ll like the film. Every morning I'm briefing him, every night I'm briefing him, I work directly for him, and now I'm playing Lieutenant Colonel Max Bowers in the movie. Now I personally ended up going over as a young captain and joining this group in late November of 2001, and I worked for Lieutenant Colonel Max Bowers’ Command Element doing public affairs and civil affairs work for him. ![]() They link up with Northern Alliance and they do some of the most amazing military feats of 21st century warfare and they do a lot of it from horseback. 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group goes into Afghanistan, they're our first response to 9/11. The story takes place in October of 2001. You know normally I'm a comedic actor and a comedian, but I was lucky enough to get to play this role. In this movie, you're playing Colonel Max Bowers, a real person that you know. Personally, I think they got it made well. I'm finding out it takes a long time to get things made, so that’s the way it goes, but the good news is they got it made. Some of us have wondered why a movie about fighting on horseback after 9/11 has taken so long to get made. I like this one personally because it’s a true story and those always, I think, always make the best stories. At the end of the day, any movie that is made, whether it’s a comedy or drama, you want to have a story that you can embrace. Well, there's action in it, for sure, but it’s also a fascinating story. I thought 12 Strong was more of an action picture than one of these solemn, respectful, “pay tribute to the troops” movies. Rob gave us some time to talk about "12 Strong" and answer a few more dumb questions. It's an awesome body of work and now he's moving into dramatic roles. Rob has an incredible resumé as a comic actor: correspondent on "The Daily Show," Phil's nemesis Gil Thorpe on "Modern Family" and movies like "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street," and "The Other Guys." He starred in a huge 2017 Dos Equis ad campaign familiar to college football fans and has been doing clips for FOX NFL Sunday. Special Forces team that was the first unit into Afghanistan after 9/11. Now Riggle's playing Bowers in the new movie " 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers," the new movie about the U.S. Max Bowers in Afghanistan in those tense months after 9/11. Col. Riggle served more than twenty years on active duty and in the Reserves and then-Major Riggle served under Lt. Rob Riggle has managed an impressive feat in his life: he’s an accomplished Marine officer who’s managed to be incredibly funny at the same time. ![]()
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