
Imagine a man in his mid-20s with an easy smile doing a few breathing exercises before jumping up and down and squealing like a pig as if his grandpa just let him get stung by some kind of alien bug. Now imagine his boss chuckling fondly on the other side of the glass pane dividing the recording studio. That’s now the life of Harry Belden, a young Chicago actor who did mostly local TV work on shows like Chicago Med before miraculously landing the role of hapless and high-pitched teenager Morty Smith on Adult Swim’s hit show Rick and Morty.