I’m excited to see what’s next for “Evil.”
I’m a happy camper on that show, and I’m enjoying watching Season 3. After I shoot an episode, it goes out of my head because I’m busy learning the lines for the next one. I often can’t remember what I’ve shot or what season it was part of, so it’s good for me to watch the show and go, “Oh, my God, that’s still part of this season.” It seems so long ago.
Do you typically watch your own performances, or is this one of the shows where you’re like, “I’d like to relive this and see how it all comes together”?
No. I’m always curious about what the final cut looks like with special effects and music and all of that. Occasionally, it’s disappointing if you know that a great big scene got whittled down to half a page, but I understand that you can’t be too precious about it. They have to cut the show. There’s a lot of cooks, a lot of supervisors — there’s networks and production executives and showrunners and all of that, so it’s fine.
In our family … my wife, Carrie, does a lot of big shows too, and we make a family event out of it. Everybody comes over — in this case, on a Sunday night — and we have dinner and we watch the show and we laugh and we make criticisms and point out absurdities, and scream when the demons come. It’s fun. It’s entertainment.
That’s fun to hear because you often hear about actors that don’t watch anything back — “I don’t want to see it.” I feel I would be the same way and want to watch it back.
I really do feel like when you’re performing, you’re in a different head. When I’m Leland and I’m shooting stuff, I don’t know where my head is at, but I’m not standing outside the narrative watching and enjoying it, laughing. It’s only later when that work is done that I can watch it as the non-performer, that I can be an audience for the show. I do like to have that experience too. Some actors will not watch themselves, and I always thought that they were cheating themselves out of a great deal of fun, but everybody has a different psychology about it.
“Evil” Season 3 is now streaming on Paramount+, with new episodes dropping on Sundays.
This interview was edited for clarity.
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