![]() And I get to throw all that onto a canvas now as an actor, as an artist, to draw from my personal life and infuse it into these characters, especially someone like Eisenhower, who's really quite a lot like me in so many ways. As a human being, being the father of five and married to this amazing woman, I've grown so much. ![]() And I think that the timing for Neal McDonough couldn't be better, because as an actor, I've grown so much. So I think I've finally gotten past it and now I get to play the good guys again. No one wants to see a guy in his 50s having those kinds of scenes anyway, to be honest. And as I said earlier, I think I've finally with age outgrown having to do. because obviously I couldn't do good guy roles, because I won't do sex scenes, and generally, you're kissing the woman at the end of a show, and I don't do that. And to play that instead of playing tons of villains. But then when I really look at it, I think I don't recognize myself so much, because I'm playing myself on television. I don't really recognize myself because it's so different. But watching this show, two things happen. This was, okay, I have to kind of watch it because I know there's going to be a lot of press. The situations are crazy if you really think about the situation, "Oh my gosh, an alien." Well, what would Eisenhower do with the situation? He would think, "Okay, let's break it down in the simplest form and how to come up with the best answer." And that's what Eisenhower did. And my choices with Eisenhower on camera were all about playing it very simple. I don't think I'm smart enough to figure these things out, being an Irishman, but I'm really good with my original hunches in keeping things simple. Like my approach to all the years I played baseball is a simple approach of throwing a ball, simple approach of hitting a ball, simple approach of being a great husband, simple approach of being a great dad. And his approach to everything was simple. And for Eisenhower, I dug into this guy and learned so much about him, that he is so much like me in that it's God first, me second. When I'm doing my characters, though, I'm 100 percent in. And then after about three days of me being by myself, if I realize, okay, I have to work when I'm working and live my life when I'm living my life. I delve." And then this is very, very early on. You've got to live your life." I'm like, "What are you talking about? I'm a method actor. She's like, "You can't live your characters 24,7. It used to drive Ruve nuts early on in our relationship. Thanks." And then when I got the job, I really then did, as I do, I delve into characters deeply. You look so much like him and you guys are very similar." I'm like, "Oh, thanks. Let's do it." It was really that simple.įor years, people have said, "You should play Eisenhower. What do you think?" I'm like, "I would be honored. ![]() "Ryan Murphy wants you to play Eisenhower in American Horror Story. MCDONOUGH: "You want to play Eisenhower in American Horror Story?" "Yes." McDonough also explains what it is about Eisenhower he liked playing, whether he was conscious of the Twilight Zone homage being paid with the show's black-and-white filming style, and how a role like this compares to, say, going full villain in a particularly iconic DC's Legends of Tomorrow sequence.Ĭollider: I want to start by asking - when this came to you, what was the pitch like? What were you told? It's a role that he deeply related to for a number of reasons, and took extremely seriously - because, as he reflects below, his career has now reached a point where after playing so many bad guys on screen, this might finally be the point where he can go back to playing the good guy again.
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