In real life, Reid Scott may be a nice guy, but he's having the time of his life these days playing Dan Egan, a rising Washington hotshot who specializes in bending the rules to fix problems for the U.S. vice president on HBO's new Sunday sitcom "Veep."
"Dan is incredibly fun to play," Scott tells Zap2it, laughing. "He's a Machiavellian, ladder-climbing snake-in-the-grass kind of guy, who may or may not have a heart. We haven't really decided yet. But he has become this sort of outlet where I can exorcise my own demons in being vicious, silver-tongued and mean."
Scott himself didn't need to break any rules when he fell in love with acting while attending prep school in upstate New York. "I happened to have this one incredible teacher who ran a ramshackle drama department, which was kind of the one creative outlet at this Catholic military school,...
"Dan is incredibly fun to play," Scott tells Zap2it, laughing. "He's a Machiavellian, ladder-climbing snake-in-the-grass kind of guy, who may or may not have a heart. We haven't really decided yet. But he has become this sort of outlet where I can exorcise my own demons in being vicious, silver-tongued and mean."
Scott himself didn't need to break any rules when he fell in love with acting while attending prep school in upstate New York. "I happened to have this one incredible teacher who ran a ramshackle drama department, which was kind of the one creative outlet at this Catholic military school,...
- 5/20/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
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