"Arrested Development," "The Ben Stiller Show," "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" and "Mr. Show" have a couple of things in common: They all relied heavily on David Cross and they all took a while for audiences to appreciate them.
"I don't know why that is," Cross said last month by phone from his home in New York. "Maybe they were just a little ahead of their time. They're not recognizable initially. If there was no 'Arrested Development,' there would be no 'Modern Family.' By the time that show came around, people were used to the idea that we originally had."
Cross, 59, continues to contribute to prestige TV. He's got juicy parts in "Justified: City Primeval," which debuts July 18 on FX, and the fourth and final season of "The Umbrella Academy," which is expected to drop on Netflix sometime this winter.
