We spent the day last week with actor David Cross, the man behind one of our all-time favorite television characters: Tobias Fünke. While Tobias was the eccentric oddball on Arrested Development, David is almost the exact opposite in person — cool, quiet, and well, kind of normal. Though he was on one of the most critically-acclaimed shows in recent years, and is about to embark on a promising movie career, David breezed through the shoot like he was just one of the guys.

We photographed David at a studio in SoHo and since we were lucky to catch some great spring weather, we decided to go outside for a few shots as well. Then it was off to a pizza joint in Alphabet City to meet our writer for the interview, where David talked about his stand-up comedy roots, the long-awaited Arrested Development movie and his new book, called “I Drink for a Reason.” Check out some pics from the shoot below and make sure to look out for David’s feature in our summer issue, due out in July.