Jake Johnson is a married man. Recently, however, he’s been logging some major screen time stumbling across more blurred lines than Robin Thicke. On the Fox comedy New Girl, which enjoys its third season premiere tonight, his character Nick has finally escaped the gravitational pull of a manipulative ex-girlfriend and consummated a lengthy flirtation with Zooey Deschanel‘s bubbly, optimistic Jess, one of his roommates.

In director Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies, meanwhile, Johnson plays Luke, an amiable, bearded thirtysomething who, despite being in a long-term relationship with Jill (Anna Kendrick), has one of those friendships with coworker Kate (Olivia Wilde) that feels like it’s teetering on the precipice of something more. Given that they work at a craft brewery with liberal policies of workplace imbibing, that makes for a decidedly slippery slope. For Playboy, I recently sat down with Johnson to discuss alcohol, the work wife, the wandering male eye, and the perils of mixing alcohol with the work wife and the wandering male eye. The conversation is a fun and interesting one, so click here for the read.