It's not unusual for an actor discussing a role to slip into the first person, caught for a moment in the very illusion he hopes to perpetuate.
But when the actor is Ray Wise, and the role is that of Devil, the transition from "he" to "I" can be a little creepy.
Not that there's anything creepy, exactly, about the actor, who played a vice president on 24 and did a tragic turn as an anchorman in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck.
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