Find out why one of Spider-Noir’s villains believes the actor is the most replaceable person on a film set, and the moment his father, a homicide detective for over thirty years, finally gave him the nod.
Andrew opens up about why he walked away from the Los Angeles actor lifestyle after his son was born, unwilling to let the boy watch his father beg for work. He talks about building a life and an acting studio outside Buffalo instead, and getting cast in Spider-Noir shortly after the move. He gets candid about his father, a homicide detective in Flint, Michigan for more than thirty years, and the kind of validation that never came from a role. Andrew walks through how he built Megawatt one layer at a time, starting from a single shell-shocked face in a group photo and deciding the man sees the whole world as a stage (the character’s real name is Dirk Leydon). He also reflects on the first play he ever did, where he wore one of his dad’s actual police uniform shirts, and finding that same shirt back in his childhood home twenty-eight years later.
An essential watch for anyone who has ever done the work and watched someone else take the credit.
