Nick Offerman discusses his genius Devs character and the pitfalls of determinism.
How to describeDevs, the new miniseries from FX, Hulu, andAnnihilationwriter/director Alex Garland?
The mad scientist at the center of Amaya is Forest, a long-haired genius played byNick Offerman.
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Instead, I just had to deal with these more personal and semi-domestic scenarios.
It sort of put his life on hold, into this paused stasis.
That was kind of the source for answering a lot of those personal questions."
He’s just able to shrug," Offerman says.
“From my point of view as a simple actor in real life, that seems pretty insane.
It may be coldly correct, but it doesn’t jive with the sense of morality that I pursue.
But I think he’s so driven.
He’s several steps ahead of almost everybody on his team.
So he doesn’t have time to say, ‘yes, nice job, isn’t this wonderful?’
He says ‘yes, great, next, keep going.
We’re not gonna have a party until I get what I want.'”
The first two episodes ofDevshit Hulu on March 5.
