McDowell admits that playing a role with greater range, like his character on Mozart in the Jungle,has allowed him to have a bit more fun as an actor. He explains, “Comedy is just telling the truth. It’s the situation really that’s comedic. So really, it’s just finding the timing of that, which is where the laughs are. But to be honest with you, it wouldn’t be much fun, I don’t think, playing serial killers every week. That would be a little tough. So to do a part like this is so refreshing for me because in movies, I’m always asked to play the heavy, and they give you sick scenes to make everybody hate you. This way, it’s a little bit more refreshing and more fun to be able to just relax a bit more and to just go for it and go for the comedy. I enjoy it very much, but I also enjoy playing heavies, too, because they’re also fun in their way.”

When asked by the interviewer if he felt a “calling” to become an actor, McDowell confesses, “I would have to say ‘Yes’ because I remember when I was a young actor, and my father tried to get me to give it up because nothing had happened in the first two years, which is nothing. But the thing is, all real actors know that things have to run their course, and you’re only ever one phone call away from the part that will change your life. That was certainly true in my case.”

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