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Well, that's the thing. If he laughs, it's a genuine laugh. I respect that. I like that about people. I like that he's not a phony, that's just who he is.

There's only one Steven Van Zandt.

Yeah, it's hard, because Cookie is like an anti-Western hero, not an antihero, but an anti-Western hero in the sense that he's very gentle. He doesn't really belong in the West. He isn't quite equipped to be in the West. He's a cook, but he's not an aggressive person. He's very soft-spoken. He's meek in a lot of ways. But that's also what drew me to it. It's a type of Western hero that we haven't seen before, or I can't think off the top of my head of a Western where you see a male lead who isn't ultra-masculine and really has a feminine side to him.

It's my pastime. Probably one of my favorites. I find it very peaceful. It helps me quiet my mind after a long day. I like to whip up a meal.

That's the reason I do this thing. I could not never imagine playing someone that doesn't have that gray area in which they live, that's why playing Tibbet (in Overlord) was also a joy, because I honestly believe that's how we are as humans. I mean, maybe there is, but I really don't think that there are people who are totally evil and totally good. I think people live in the middle. People do things that are selfish sometimes, people do things that are altruistic sometimes, it just depends on when you catch them.

That's my biggest battle. Not becoming a depressive fuck.

What I think draws us back to Watergate is that, in a lot of ways, I think that was the genesis of where we're at politically now.