“To be a non-self-conscious asshole — God, I’ve wanted to do that all my life,” cracks Marc Maron as we sit down at the offices of The Hollywood Reporter to record an episode of THR‘s Awards Chatter podcast and begin discussing his Netflix comedy series GLOW. He’s describing the character he plays — it recently earned him Critics’ Choice and SAG award nominations, with an Emmy nomination likely to follow. Maron, 54, is best known as a standup comedian who was a central figure in the early days of the “alternative comedy” movement, and as the host of the groundbreaking podcast WTF, for which a sitting president, Barack Obama, trekked to Maron’s Highland Park garage to chat with him. Acting is something that has always intrigued Maron, but it wasn’t until GLOW, in which he plays a washed-up Hollywood director hired to turn a ragtag group of actresses into professional-level wrestlers for a TV show, that he really stretched himself. “I had no expectations,” he says of the…
