Alan Ruck on playing Connor Roy in HBO's Succession
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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The Power of Character
I'm not really a disappearing kind of actor. Sometimes I feel it feels like I'm just allen in different clothes, but that's okay. You're usually a sweet or jerk and a jerky or sweetheart. But if you look at somebody like Jack Nicholson, brilliant movie, American Treasure, really. He's almost always just played Jack Nicholson, but he's played every note, every color in that rainbow. If it's good enough for him, it is good enough for me. It was fun to be on stage in those early days and realizing that I had some little bit of power.
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