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Danny McBride talks about choosing to live and work in South Carolina

NPR | By Rachel Martin

Published July 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM CDT

For Danny McBride, success in Hollywood has taken patience, hard work, and a little bit of delusion. That sense of delusion is present in the characters he portrays and in his new book of stories.

Rachel Martin

Rachel Martin is a host of Morning Edition, and a founding host of NPR's award-winning morning news podcast Up First. Martin's interviews take listeners behind the headlines to understand the people at the center of those stories.