Evan Gamble is a phenomenal actor and musician. You can see him on the screen in Fear The Walking Dead, Hap and Leonard, Vampire Diaries, Deadwax, and Roar.
ADRIAN: You have played some absolutely fantastic villains, from Fear the Walking Dead to Hap and Leonard. Do you like playing the bad guy?
EVAN: Yes! I prefer it. I have always loved Villains! My favorite characters are always the bad guys, from Hans Gruber in Die Hard to Nicholas Cage in Dream Scenario, they have always been way more interesting. I would play a villain every time!
ADRIAN: Omg, Nicholas Cage in Dream Scenario was absolutely brilliant. I love the Talking Heads homage at the end.... also Alan Rickman was everything. Die Hard is 100% a Christmas movie. Well, you played Ennis on Season 4 of Fear The Walking Dead. What was it like playing that character?
EVAN: I was still shooting Hap and Leonard, They let me leave the set, catch a plane and do the audition. I was so sick. The whole audition was dummy sides. When I got the role, I didn't know a whole lot about the character. They let me figure out the character myself. I was flying by the seat of my pants; the character had a lot of unknowns so I focused on his backstory.
ADRIAN: Well, you killed it! Your costuming in Fear the Walking Dead was so fun. I loved the sparkly jacket and a News Boy cap.
EVAN: Jo Katsaras did the whole thing. Her costuming helped me figure Ennis out. It grounded the character. My girlfriend had my character made into an action figure for me in that costume. She gave me a character with swagger. When you put on costumes, stuff magically happens.
EVAN: Sitting next to Kim Dickens on set was so surreal. She was in Gone Girl! It's so awesome working with people you admire. Also, when they Zombified me, they had to put these special contact lenses in and it just wouldn't stick. It took 3 hours to get them in. I ended up in a conversation with Greg Nicotero, who is a legend, about guitars. It held up the whole shoot, but we got it. My eyes just kept rejecting the contacts.I really enjoyed how they made me a zombie. It was in that found footage style! The contacts worked.
ADRIAN: You were also in a very Lynch inspired show called Deadwax. Tell me about that.
EVAN: Deadwax was interesting. When I read for it, my agent didn't know what it was for. They thought maybe it was a Kevin Heart project on YouTube?.... it was one of the first Shudder originals and no one knew what Shudder was. I had to do it, it was new, and my favorite genre. It was a natural steppingstone and it was actually shot in LA. It had this amazing Noir feel. It felt like shooting a movie. My character Len was intense, sick, losing his mind, and was tortured in every scene. It gets into your body and you have to rev up for it. It's fantastic.
EVAN: I have a new band called Pretty Dead Ferrari. I'm making music with my two best friends. The album should be released next year. They are tip top songs related in tandem. These songs revolve around a story. Music was my first love. My first dreams were writing songs in middle school. I wanted to be like Kurt Cobain, Billy Corgan, and Chris Cornell. Acting came after. I realized I could make money acting... although that will break your heart sometimes, but you can't stop creating. Art, in whatever form, is the point of everything. Art conveys emotion. Music, film, any of it has this intangible, magical feeling. One way or another you have to express, feel and share it on some level.
ADRIAN: So on Roar, you got to be possessed by the ghost of Alison Brie and punch Hugh Dancy in the face?
