Clark Peters

I'm amazed when Ian McClellan, for example, will all of a sudden out of nowhere start...

reciting reams of Shakespeare that is appropriate to a particular moment that we're living today.

I don't have that kind of mind.

But when I hear something like that, it's like playing music.

You know what key you're playing, and you figure, I remember this melody.

So you pick it up from there.

Did I audition for Lester?

No, I don't think I did, but I was quite happy to land in Lester's lap, so to speak.

He's the guy I want to be when I grow up, you know, because he does do police work.

You know, he doesn't have access to the Internet.

You know, it was old fashioned research and you went through volumes and of tomes of of information, whether it was books.

banking or whether it was, in this particular instance, real estate records, and then having to cross-reference that.

My mind likes that kind of agility, and I liked that being applied in Lester's life.

No.

Back then, you know, we would get the whole episode and you would read the whole episode.

Nowadays, you know, you get a scene, you have no idea the context of the scene and you're asked to audition.

I can't do that.

I refuse to do that.

I think that that really makes our job as actors very difficult.

When we have the whole story,