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He continued, \"So you can just let it be what it is and the scenes become about what the scenes are, not getting a laugh. If there's humor within it, that's great, that's sort of like a bonus.\"

As for how he feels being off camera, Stiller said, \"For me not acting, I really enjoyed it.\"

Plus, he's had the chance to work with an A-list cast of actors including Benicio del Toro and Patricia Arquette.

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The show follows the story of two inmates who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum security state prison in upstate New York.

\"They got involved with a civilian worker, Tillie Mitchell (played by Arquette), who oversaw the tailor shop at the prison, and they started to have a relationship with her -- both of these guys -- and she helped them to escape,\" Stiller explained.

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Stiller, 53, said that the actors \"didn't worry about making the characters likable at all.\"

\"These are people who did some really bad things, but they just played then as human beings,\" he said. \"And that's what was interesting to me in the story was the human relationships that developed in these situations when you're incarcerated. There's still going to be the same wants and desires that everybody has and how people -- move past that or overcome that.\"

The 71st Emmy Awards will air live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m. Eastern on FOX.

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