“I feel like guys often get the chance to play the anti-hero. If you think about Walter White from Breaking Bad, by the end of that show he’s a despicable human being, but you’re rooting for him and you hate him and love him at the same time. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for men to play those kinds of roles. Characters who don’t fit into a box and are kind of good and bad and ethically murky. I feel like it’s happening more and more for women, but so often you still read roles that fall into “someone’s wife” or “virgin whore.” I love that Laura is a jerk. She’s a real a–hole. Not only that, but she feels no shame about it. Obviously you want to empathize with the character that you’re playing, and so I’ve thought a lot about where her attitude and views come from, but I love the fact that there will be times when the audience won’t empathize with her at all. I think that’s exciting and interesting. Again, you watch The Sopranos and you’re not always like, “Oh, I understand why Tony’s doing all these things he’s doing!” It’s like, no. Sometimes it’s just sh–ty! Sometimes you just do a shitty thing. And that’s how people work.”
One of the key elements of the pitch [Bryan Fuller and Michael Green] gave me was that Mad Sweeney’s journey was going to be sort of like “‘Bonnie and Clyde’ with a zombie and a leprechaun.” I thought that was hilarious and a great set-up for comedy. – Pablo Schreiber
In the Americas, anyone can be anything they insist upon. New name, new life. That’s a place a body could be happy. What the fuck is happy? Fucked if I know. – American Gods, “A Prayer for Mad Sweeney”
"Technically, you killed him." 