The actors tell All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly that their close relationship as real-life friends helped them get through some of their most toxic moments on screen.
Once a prominent musician in New York City, Wachner was working as a grade school teacher in Indiana. Prosecutors have accused him of possessing sexual abuse imagery of young children.
Dr. Don did not set out to write a song about mental health challenges. He was just following the same creative rhythm that had defined much of his recent work, the alternating fast and slow, short and long, letting his piano guide the melody before layering in bass and a synthetic violin called La Pesque….