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Feud’s Russell Tovey on What It Takes to Play a Baddie


“He seemed to move like a glacier, this solid mass of shit moving through Truman’s life.”

An alcoholic brute with a family back in the suburbs, O’Shea is played by Russell Tovey in oversize glasses with a pair of fists ready to pummel the diminutive Capote at any given time. I’m sure Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, and Diane Lane had so much to work with when creating their characters — articles and photos and recordings and such. Watching you in Feud, I kept thinking back to Joe Pitt in Angels in America, who you played onstage, and Jason in The Pass, characters who are wrestling with their masculinity and sexuality.

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