Where this was said
Smallville, Blue Mountain State, and Learning to Hold Loosely
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Alan's first big break was Aquaman on Smallville, where he debuted in Season 5 and the episode set a ratings record. The studio smelled something and moved to give him his own spin-off show — complete with a fixer calling to clean up his future bar fights. Then a Warner Bros.-UPN merger put a new president in charge who looked at a guy with no resume and cancelled it. It happened again: a new actor got trouble, the deal came back to Alan, then Justin Hartley came off Passions and was better suited. The lesson Alan took was never to hold on tight until the cameras actually roll. Blue Mountain State followed: three seasons, number-one in the 18-35 male demo on Spike but missed because Spike didn't have a scripted TV audience. Sold to Netflix and became the number-one comedy on the platform [1]. Alan was in South Africa when the recognition found him, and rather than feeling grateful he felt entitled and arrogant — a mindset that nearly cost him everything at his Thor audition.
