interview | phil dunster

In a car on the way home from the set of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ is where we find Phil Dunster. Charming, effortlessly funny and quick to laugh, the conversation is one riddled with laughter. We talk about his latest television show ‘Rooster’ for HBO MAX, starring Steve Carell and created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses (both of ‘Scrubs’ fame). Dunster plays Archie, the roguish, narcissistic, Russian Literature professor and son-in-law to Carrell’s Greg. On paper, Archie is not the most pleasant. He’s conceited, self-centred, but annoyingly still a gentleman… Despite the infidelity. He cheated on his wife, Katie (Charly Clive), with a grad student and subsequently got said grad student pregnant (which leads to a hilarious showdown between Greg and Archie involving a broken bed). If it were anyone else playing Archie, it may not have worked, but Dunster brings a likability to the character that makes it so incredibly hard to dislike. Despite his flaws, despite the mistakes, Archie is just trying to do the right thing by Katie and Sunny (Lauren Tsai). Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Archie is trying to have his cake and eat it too, Dunster tells us. An... Read more » The post interview | phil dunster appeared first on Schön! Magazine.