Michael Chernus‘ portrayal of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy is brilliant. That’s not a word I want to use when it comes to one of the more terrifying serial killers of all time, but it works. The series, which I recently finished watching with my Peacock subscription, is, in my opinion, perhaps the best of all the recent TV shows about real-life serial killers, and Chernus’ performance is the key to the whole series.
So how does an actor get into the head of a character like Gacy? That’s a scary place to have to go, and Chernus recently spoke to playing a character based on a very real and very terrible person. Here’s how he developed his performance.
