- Something bad is coming.
(suspenseful music)
- Paul Sparks, I have a question.
So season one and season two of 'Castle Rock',
complete head f*cks for different reason.
But you're in season two, so I wanna know what made
you wanna jump aboard for this project?
- The money.
- The money?
- No (laughs).
- Thanks for the honestly (laugh) what was the paycheck?
- It was, I didn't make as much as Tim Robbins.
Steven King's such an interesting part of our
literary tapestry.
And then I talked to Dusty Thomason, the Show Runner,
and he and I,
he basically said, look,
bad guy and just when you think he can't get any worse
So that was something that seemed like it would be fun.
- Were you a fan of Steven King in the horror genre
before this?
- I like horror and I like Steven King.
Actually though, my favorite book of his is 'The Stand'.
I like the way he uses kind of the insidious nature
of human beings to kind of be scary.
- When are you in the mood to watch that kind of stuff?
I know when I wanna watch horror, it's like I'm
in a bad mood or I like wanna feel uplifted.
- Actually, when I'm in a good mood.
When I'm feeling like light kinda violence,
it's like yeah, let's do this.
Lets be f*ck it up
- But you know then you're watching,
we were watching, I don't know what the Japanese name is
but it's called, 'Dark Water'.
We were about three quarters through the first ten minutes.
I was like, why are we watching this?
'Cause this is too scary.
And there's a lot of ...
Yeah, I like horror but ...
- You scared?
- I get too scared.
- What do you do when you're watching a scary movie
with someone who like pulls up the blanket?
Do you cover your eyes, like how do you react?
- I feel like I leave a lot.
- Something really bad almost happened.
Shit even you wouldn't be able to live with.
- I don't know.
I find I can live with a lot.
- You have some really intense scenes.
Like even when you're looking at me now,
it's scaring me a little bit because you have
that intensity.
So how do you get there and how do you drop it after?
- To say that I'm totally am unaffected by it,
that I'm, is not true.
I think that when you work on things,
But it's not something that I'm actively pursuing.
I'm not trying to stay in character,
- I'm not sorry you know.
- About what?
- Killing you.
- Do you ever like watch your own movies or T.V. shows?
- It's not easy to do.
I don't, I have friends who watch and are like
look at me, look at me out there, look I'm amazing,
look at what I'm doing.
(cackles)
And I look at it and I say, what?
How, what are you doing?
Like who is that?
So it's a very traumatic experience watching myself.
Like
- What was it about that particular show
that made you think, I can't watch it?
- I don't know, sometimes they come a little close to me.
I think you feel like, oh, this is really close
to like who I could be like a person.
Still pays the rent.
- Have a seat.
- So you can go to set and sometimes feel self conscious.
So how do you get over those moments of self doubt
and being a little bit too aware of what you maybe
look like or feel like on camera?
- You know, I think it's something that you learn
over time.
If you were to go back and really watch the very
beginnings of me being on screen,
I think that
kinda redirect it.
It's a bit of a trick, you know you have to convince
yourself that you can be vulnerable.
And so, it took me, and it takes me at times,
depending on what I'm working on,
it can be really difficult to find that.
But that's what I'm aspirational sort of reaching for
is being comfortable.
- Final question.
- All right go on.
- (laughs) Go on give it to me.
What is scarier, America today or 'Castle Rock'?
- It's pretty scary to be in America right now.
I think the division that's going on in our country
is really scary.
This sort of mean spirited kind of rhetoric
that's like tossing around.
I mean, I feel like that's scary.
If you allow and sort of accept and become okay with
this sort of vitriolic rhetoric to be flying around.
It's much worse.
All this jazz is like coming out of Washington D.C.,
it's a nightmare.
I mean, I live in New York City,
but I come from Oklahoma.
These are the two polar opposites in terms of blue and red
and
So it's confusing to me that we're so far apart.
Like as a society.
But I find it really scary.
- It absolutely is scary.
- But 'Castle Rock' also very scary.
(laughs)
- And you play the greatest, scariest man ever.
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