The Office - A few spoilers from an interview with Creed Bratton

AVC: When do you start shooting for the next season?

CB: July 25. Creed’s still the manager, so we’ll have to see how long they’ll keep that madman in there.

AVC: Do you think he has it in him to run a company?

CB: Does he have it in him to run his own life? No. He sleeps under his desk. My character that I wrote was much darker. He was a killer and a psychopathic madman.

AVC: Like a Manson family follower?

CB: Yeah, exactly. And I can pull that off pretty well, as you can probably imagine. He’s more PG-rated now, but he’s still got a weird vibe. I think he’ll go back to his desk eventually, because they don’t want to be around him all the time. He’ll just come in for pithy one-liners.

AVC: Do you think about striking a balance between creepy and normal?

CB: People just assume you’re playing yourself, but it’s a character. For a couple of seasons, we all perpetuated the “Creed cred,” because we liked people to think I was that guy. It was good for press, right? But I think the cat’s out of the bag now, with Terri, that I am an actor. I have to be careful, because directors will sometimes say, “Oh, that’s a little dark.” That’s one thing they’re told by Greg Daniels: “Remind Creed to back off, because sometimes he likes to go dark.” And I do. I’m not precious about my art.

Read more about his new movie "Terri" at: AVClub