, which premieres April 11, playing both the 200-year-old mutant killer the Ghoul, and the decent man he once was, B-movie Western star Cooper Howard.
There’s a rascally element to a number of the roles that you’ve played. Are you yourself rascally by nature? Lonely. Anger. Confusion. The end of an era, the loss of a job, the loss of friendships, the loss of a routine. I didn’t know what life would be like on the other side of it. And the fall can be precipitous for those that have never experienced it and don’t know how to calibrate their personal life on the other side of it. In some ways, I think people should teach a class on that: “This is how you start over.” I would sign up for that class.
Once we really started discussing who this person was and what he should look like, I knew it was going to be an intense process. And the first time we applied the makeup, it took five hours in the chair. It was five hours, Alan. Did I say it was five hours, Alan? It was five hours.But we learned a lot. And once we got everything on, I asked to keep it on for about an hour and a half. I just sat outside with it and moved around on my own.