John Carroll Lynch on Playing Complicated People

Lynch admits he’s used to being asked to play creepy characters, and explains how each actor needs to discover how he or she fits in not only today’s acting scene, but how he or she would’ve been perceived in previous generations. He says, “I seem to be asked to play complicated people. I bring a certain level of menace. The weather changes from sunny to cloudy to stormy with me, and the storms are dangerous. If you want to figure out where you fit in the acting ecosystem, you look at where you would have fit into the generation that came before you. For a while, I thought I was George Kennedy, Karl Malden. American Horror Story’s Twisty the Clown took me to a place where I had to reconsider that. I might actually be Boris Karloff. I guess I’m thinking a lot about death lately.” (via)  ]]>