‘Horrible Bosses’ star Charlie Day talks real-life horror jobs, playing piano, being a Red Sox fan

“I didn’t know any of the actors other than Sudeikis going into the movie and I got some chills because I’ve always been a fan of Kevin Spacey,” he says. “The very first scene we shot was the one where he yells at me for parking outside his house. It took me a second to realize I needed to do my part as opposed to just watching the Kevin Spacey show.”

In the movie, Day’s character is constantly sexually harassed by his boss, played by Aniston. (Poor guy.) in real life, Day’s experienced his worst boss from his days as a struggling actor/waiter/infomercial receptionist in Manhattan.

“I used to be a busboy and barback at one of those Upper East Side Irish bars with sawdust on the floors,” he recalls. “My boss had these two Winklevoss-type sons who would bartend and never tip me out. one St.Patrick’s Day I worked a double shift, busted my ass for 24-hours straight and then never got my tips.

“I was going to throw a brick through the window, but I just quit quietly.”

While Days claims to have “very fond memories” of his four years living in New York after he graduated from Merrimack College in 1998, most of these recollections are actually fairly dark.

He can vividly recall where he was on Sept. 11, 2001.

“I was at my girlfriend-at-the-time’s place in Park Slope and all I can remember is trying to find my shoes,” he says. “The TV was blaring that we were under attack and I was like, ‘I’ve got to get my shoes so I can kick some ass!’ I guess I was really big into proper footwear.”

Both of Day’s parents were music teachers in the Bronx when he was born and they taught their son to play the piano, which leads to another of Day’s darkly humorous memories.

“When I lived in New York, my apartment was too small for a piano so the musical director at a local church on 22nd Street allowed me to practice at the church,” he says. “One day I was playing and this priest came up to me and said, ‘I don’t like you or your kind.’ And he kicked me out. Now that’s New York for ya!”

Maybe the priest could sense that Day was a Boston Red Sox fan.

“Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan,” he says. “A little while ago, I went to a Yankees game with Sudeikis and we were sitting front row in Lorne Michaels’ seats. my buddies from home spotted me on TV and they called to give me crap, not because I was wearing a Yankees cap, because I wasn’t, but because I wasn’t wearing a Red Sox hat.

“But, hey, I didn’t want to get my ass kicked!”

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‘Horrible Bosses’ star Charlie Day talks real-life horror jobs, playing piano, being a Red Sox fan

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