Suburgatory - Jeremy Sisto Interview

You have a history of playing really dark roles. Why suddenly shift to comedy?
[Navigation voice from Sisto’s car.]

Uh-oh. What’s happening?
[Laughs.] All of my answers will be done in the navigational voice, if that’s okay.

As long as you choose your route accordingly.
It’s going to be a very complicated interview, but we’ll do it. [Navigation voice again.] You’ll get used to it … Anyway, now I’m wondering why I didn’t want to do comedy more when I was younger. In reality, I think it was less up to me than I thought it was. I did kind of consciously make that decision [to do darker roles]; that said, if I was offered a great comedy, I wouldn’t have turned it down. I was in my twenties and I was a pretty brooding guy. In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven’t dealt with, it comes out. That’s why you have a lot of artists that don’t make it through. So, yeah, I had some dark years in there, and I was lucky that I was allowed to tap into that in my work. Now things are very different in my life; I’ve got a family. It’s much more important that I stay in a good mood and that I don’t go to that dark place. I’m really enjoying it, and now I’m thinking I should have been more focused on this all along. But, sure, there’s a side of me that’s craving something dark, and hopefully that will come along.

Source: Full interview @ Vulture