JOHN C McGINLEY

The ScrubS and Stan againSt Evil sTar Talks sci-fi and fanTasy

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY FILMS

growing up it was Star Wars and everything else – it just felt like they were reinventing everything you’d seen before, and made it epic and real. I thought Aliens was great because Sigourney was just so singular in her performance, Blade Runner was pretty special, and The Terminator – nobody had seen anything like Schwarzenegger before. And then Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind – Jim Carrey was transcendent in that.

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY TV

I’m pretty excited for the second season of Westworld. ed Harris is my neighbour in Malibu, he’s been a friend since we did The Rock, and I can’t wait to see to see what happens because I can’t look him in the eye until I see it. I read the pilot script for The Walking Dead and I thought it was one of the best things I’d ever read, then I didn’t get to go and act in it because they went in a different direction. I kind of have a mixed relationship with it. I wanted to be in it so bad, but I’m so petty and competitive that when it didn’t work out, I haven’t seen it!

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY COMICS

I was into comics as a kid, mostly Spider-Man and the Hulk, Superman and Batman. I just thought they were badasses. But there was nothing in the Spider-Man comics that was like where I grew up in New york. they were different universes. they had bright colours – we had mostly grey. RE

Stan Against Evil’s second season is currently airing on Fox on Thursday nights. You can watch from the start on catch-up and on-demand.