Horror and comedy have always gone hand in hand.
After all, the physical act of laughing isn’t all that different from screaming.
But what setsEvilapart is its unsettling tone.
Mike Colter, Katja Herbers, Aasif Mandvi, and Michael Emerson on ‘Evil’.ELIZABETH FISHER/CBS
Eyeballs pop up in toilet bowls.
Nightmares break the fourth wall.
A demon visits his therapist, who turns out to be a giant goat.
Mike Colter and Aasif Mandvi on ‘Evil’.ELIZABETH FISHER/CBS
“In that moment I realized, ‘Oh, we’re a comedy.’
The whole thing is absurd.
You suddenly realize, ‘Oh, there’s this real absurdity underlying this entire show.'”
In fact, the cast tells EW, they delight in toying with the audience’s expectations.
“And I’m happy about that.
As for David, he’s graduated from priest-in-training to official man of God.
“It was the saddest soup I’ve ever seen,” Colter says of filming that scene.
“I literally was like, ‘Guys, this is not even bone broth.’
I was embarrassed to eat it.
I thought it was way overboard.
It wasn’t even soup.”
Still, Colter teases, it’s not all boring confessions and sad liquid meals.
The new season will present plenty of challenges for poor David both personal and professional.
“How do we keep it interesting?
And what does that mean for him as a character?”
“I always love it when Ben gets thrown from his surefootedness,” Mandvi adds.
“Ben is a little bit like a tree.
I feel like he’s solid.
He really knows what he knows, and he stands firm in that.
So whenever Ben is out of that element, it’s fun to play him.”
Plus, they add, season 3 will have plenty of unsettling surprises along the way.
“It’s a heck of a job,” Emerson adds with a smile.
A terrifying one, too.
