maxgreenfield:

That’s something Evan and I spent time on [the accent]. He was off shooting X-Men and I called him and I said, “I want you to do something very different than you’ve ever done and I want you to be the villain.” And he jumped out of his skin with joy. When I met Evan he was 22, and now he’s 28, 29. I feel like he has wanted to play a darker, more mature character. I told him what I was thinking and the character is from the from the late ‘20s East Coast. I told him certain movies to go watch and certain leading men of the time: William Powell, Clark Gable. Then he on his own sent me four different voice recordings of him reading the same speech with different voices that he was working. I think I said, “Number four is the one.” So that’s something he came up with on his own. He did a lot of research. That character is very educated and at the time that meant he probably had gone overseas so there’s a little bit of that in there. I’m proud of him. He really has done his homework with that. I love what he’s doing and he’s very heavy this season. The more we go on, the bigger he becomes. He’s having a ball. It’s always a good thing when you have an actor who texts you after a scene, “That was the most f—ed up but exhilarating thing I was forced to do.” That means I did my job, Tim.