Dylan Baker talks about Kings, playing creeps, and The Pitts - VIDEOS

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Dylan Baker is one of those “That Guy” actors, a guy you’ve probably seen in a million different shows and movies, but can’t fairly place his name. But his “That Guy-ness” has a twist: he generally plays creeps, scumbags, pedophiles, and otherwise not-so-nice citizens. It’s a lot in life he seems to be perfectly OK with. “I think they’re more interesting. They’re more fun to play.”

In Kings (which Danny previewed earlier today), the Biblical-themed soap that premieres on NBC on Sunday, March 15, Baker finds himself in as equally reprehensible role: he plays William Cross, the head of a huge conglomerate that holds

the purse strings behind the capability of King Silas Benjamin of Gilboa (Ian McShane). The complicating factor is that he’s additionally the brother of Silas’ wife, Rose (Susanna Thompson).

I spoke to the 49-year old character actor about the show, how he thinks his character has a little bit of Dick (Cheney) in him, how he can play a child molester (fans of the 1998 film Happiness will know what I’m talking about) and how much he loved working on the doomed sitcom The Pitts.

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Original post by Joel Keller