So we’re having a good time actually pushing that envelope, which I always like in projects. And then it broadens out into the realms of the magic world and these realms that Satan brings into it, which pushes certain buttons that we have to deal with. Everybody has their own little things that they have to navigate in their family dynamic. There’s this nugget of turmoil with the family unit, which a lot of us go through. And these demons - Darcy, Seth and Kieran - they have that in mind. That domestic relatability, I did not expect that coming into the show and it was nice. “You’re trying too hard, dad.” That kind of thing. I love the family dynamic and the parallels of broken families and stuff like that with the bad dad trying to overachieve in certain ways. She has to be on top of things, knowing that down the pike, this guy is coming, and he’s going to show himself or find them. She’s created this Sarah Connor-esque kind of. Of course, because she was raised for 13 years by Laura, who is a force to be reckoned with. And Chrissy is proving to be very formidable. I was looking for a boy, but as Satan says, that future is female. But the idea is that it’s my dream come true. So, when Laura gives birth to the antichrist, I mean, not that I haven’t tried before, which I won’t get into because I don’t want to spoil anything down the line in the show. And when I fall head over heels, which is not hard to imagine, for Aubrey (Laura). There are so many things coming at me, whether it’s demons who want my shit, or the realms, hell and temptations, and things that I’ve got to deal with in a Tony Soprano way, where there’s a lot of people gunning for me. This is like doing a feature every week almost. Amazing what goes on to put an animated show. I’ve done many movies and television things. This is our first time producing an animated show. I mean, it’d be great to hang out and be together and pitch and do story stuff. And you realize that animation in the pandemic seemed to go hand in hand because you do everything on this. Chrissy’s in the middle of Laura and Satan. This whole story is about being a family that’s torn with the devil and the antichrist. We brought it to Landgraf at FX, who I’ve been working with forever. And they put together a pitch, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I’ll refer to them always as the demons. So we started putting the thing together, the demons - we call Seth and Darcy and Kieran the demons. I can’t remember exactly when, four years ago or something, Lucy called me and said her friends had this idea for a show, would I be interested in listening? And then she pitched the fact that I would play the devil. Well, Lucy DeVito, my darling daughter who plays Chrissy, the antichrist in Little Demon - she’s good friends with Darcy Fowler and Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla who are the creators of the show, and also with Aubrey Plaza, who plays Laura. Did you see the video with the snake in the tube that was walking? It was a paralyzed snake that had arms and legs. That’s going to freak me out the whole interview. To hear about that, DeVito recounting a legendary (and utterly fucked up) Always Sunny prank, his scene-stealing role in a classic ’80s music video, and a little more about playing the Devil, keep reading. But maybe not as far as the Always Sunny guys have pushed DeVito before. It’s a show that, true to its wild premise, pushes envelopes in the outrageous ways one might expect from the likes of DeVito and Harmon. Standing in the way is the child’s mother, who DeVito describes as a Sarah Connor type dedicated to protecting her daughter even as she starts to take after her father in some ways (the mother is voiced by Aubrey Plaza). In the show (which debuts tonight at 10PM on FXX), DeVito voices Satan, an absentee father looking to connect with his daughter, aka the anti-Christ (who is voiced by Lucy DeVito, Danny’s daughter). #Nuggit kindergraden tvHe’s actually working with two of them on his most recent project, an animated sitcom called Little Demon produced by (among others including DeVito and his son Jake) Dan Harmon for FXX, the home base of DeVito’s other TV family, Always Sunny. With the whole parenting thing, it’s natural, DeVito is a dedicated father of three grown children who have, themselves, taken to creative paths much like their parents, DeVito and his wife, Rhea Perlman ( Cheers). So how did we wind up talking about snakes with arms, Satan, heartfelt parenting advice, and lipsynching with Michael Douglas? Well, some of that can be explained and some of it is just the flow of a conversation when you’re talking with an icon and trying to ask him something he doesn’t normally talk about. There really are endless things you could talk with Danny DeVito about, considering the man has been a TV legend, a big screen star, director, mega-producer, and honorary member of One Direction.
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