his name behind episodes of contemporary television could be surprising. For McCarthy himself, however, directing became a natural extension of storytelling.
Writing provided another major transformation. During travels abroad, McCarthy began recording experiences and observations in notebooks. He later explained that when he first wrote down a travel experience, he felt a creative recognition similar to what he had experienced when discovering acting. He began pursuing travel writing seriously during the 2000s. Rather than using his celebrity merely to obtain travel opportunities, he worked to develop the reporting and storytelling
