Michael Shannon isn't an actor who disappears into his characters. It's more they disappear into him.
Whether he's playing Elvis or General Zod, he doesn't try to duplicate whatever popular image you already have of the person. Instead, he'd rather try to show you something you don't know. "It's not so much to try and fool you into thinking that I'm them," he said on "Salon Talks. "But it's trying to communicate what the experience of being them is like."
