How Darren Criss views Versace’s killer Andrew Cunanan
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2018
- Darren Criss opens up about his transformation into Gianni Versace’s killer Andrew Cunanan for FX’s ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,’ and how he had to find some sort of “common denominator” between himself and Cunanan.
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He is so well spoken
Larry???
Knowledgeable and educated
@@RoulinBrooks Larry was the most well spoken man in history. How could he withstand that dullard, Criss? :D
Darrel 'understood' his character of Andrew Cunanan. That's how he was so brilliant in the role. He has got to get an Emmy. If he doesn't - the whole Emmy thing is fixed.
He won :)
He was amazing!
Robert Anderson *Darren
He was really great! I'm glad he won!
Criss completely misunderstood Cunanan’s psychopathy. Andrew’s “likability” is that of a lethal parasite. The most successful serial killers are charming and gracious. Otherwise they wouldn’t be capable of luring their victims.
I don't see Darren anymore, I see Andrew. What a great actor!
Mocha M yea and I think that’s because we know or knew very little of the real Andrew so Darren had more freedom to portray him! In a sense Darren introduced us to Andrew!
Yes, I agree.Darren portrayed Andrew to the hilt. His acting was superb! He better get an award.He made u anticipate his next move... L❤️ved the show. I couldn’t wait till next week to watch it.Soo good!!!
So true sometimes i look at him and feel a bit scared😂
Mikki Bihon same here. He is Andrew in my eyes.
so scary
Darren Criss is so intelligent and eloquent.
He I s a Jew
He's half Filipino for goodness sake
Man, this guy knows how to speak and how to express his ideas
I was expecting him to answer like any other actor, but this guy seems to be very intelligent.
He is not seems!
KusanagiMotoko100 he isn't like most actors, to say in Andrew's words
exactly what what i was thinking. he’s so well spoken!!!
Darren is fairly well known for being articulate and charmingly empathetic
I never thought that a glee actor could be so phenomenal.
Yep, i defo agree! Him and Jonathan Groff of Mindhunter. Both from Glee. Great actors imo :)
Thats how young actors start their careers. Disney shows, teen movies etc...
Why not?
you clearly didn’t watch the show. they were all pretty great actors. many stemmed from broadway or made their way after. darren is only one of many amazing talents that happened to appeared on glee.
fazeel ashraf all the glee actors are phenomenal, don't forget Darren started off as Harry Potter in a parody musical
he looks *_exactly_* like cunanan it’s uncanny. great acting and well spoken in this interview
He wanted to be loved and accepted. But as Ronnie pointed out on the last episode, the consequences of killing a famous person like Gianni Versace are different from the consequences of killing a non-famous person. Cunanan had been able to evade authorities for nearly three months because his murders in multiple states had been clumsily handled by different, uncommunicative jurisdictions. After Cunanan murdered an international celebrity, Gianni Versace, the investigation became more focused and aggressive-involving 1,000 agents across the country. According to the F.B.I., this intensity drove Cunanan inside, forced him to change his pattern. He was a destroyed person who wanted to be seen, when no one really did.
In an effort to avoid the humiliation of his own failed life, Andrew Cunanan, who had wasted his gifts and lived resolutely on the surface, struck back. Fueled by drugs and filled with rage, his unmitigated ruin also drove him to destroy others, including the only person he had probably ever loved. With the exception of William Reese, each one of Andrew Cunanan’s victims - Jeff Trail, David Madson, Lee Miglin, and Gianni Versace - was like a piece of himself.
In the end, Andrew Cunanan was a sad testament to vulgar, unrealized aspiration. The little boy who wanted a big house with an ocean view died hunted on the water with a gun for his last companion.
This whole story is a tragic, from Andrew's point of view and from his victims'.
Úlfar Viktor I love the way you phrased it, and I couldn’t agree more. He was so mad at himself, at life, for wasting it. He thought he had lost already, could’ve been because he was almost 30. Then these accomplished men in his life became repulsive to him because they reminded him of what he wanted but didn’t have. He did have an inferiority complex that he masked with his elaborate stories, but it seems that at some point, the stories stopped working for him. He had to face his reality-that he was “nothing.”
@@Quebonitoeslobonito123 The pathological lying and tall tales he used to mask his reality stopped working when the people who he cared about the most, Trail and Madson, figrued him out and exposed him. They basically made him face what he didn't want to face. Humiliation, betrayal (from his point of view), desperation... If you add the constant drug use and alcohol drinking, it's not really strange that he totally snapped.
@@Quebonitoeslobonito123 very true statement...
Andrew has grown with a father who gave him excessive and unrealistic ideas about who he needed to be. For a child to grow like this.. it’s mindfucking for the brain. To Andrew this was his reality and when he realized that it could not be obtained and got rejected over and over well he just snapped. The lives he ruins and the pain he caused to people is unforgivable, but in the end I can only feel like he was also a victim in all of this.
If you read Maureen Orth's book, Andrew was awful from a young age because his parents treated him like he was special beyond anything else. He had plenty of opportunities to obtain the riches he oh so wanted, including living with a man who practically gave him everything, his school friend who paid for his lifestyle and a well connected friend who offered him a well-paid job. Like your typical narcissist, Andrew wanted people to worship the ground he walked on and so working for it wasn't his way. I still don't quite understand him 'snapping' and turning into a killer because as Darren explains, he doesn't have the typical traits. I don't think Andrew was a victim at all. I haven't watched the show (just currently reading the book) and although I do see similarities between he and myself (being insecure and wanting to impress others), he was such a rotten person even before the murders that I can't feel sorry for him.
@@BBrunnel I think you basically validated his point about Cunanan also being a victim. It all started from his parents behavior towards him, so in a sense he was a victim of his parents' mistakes. Of course it's disproportional when you compare it to the people he murdered, but still the actor who played him made a very good point about wasted potential.
What an intelligent, well spoken man . So rare in Hollywood nowadays
He did an amazing job and deserves an Emmy award.
His vocab is so OH-MAZING! 😍
Jesus.. Did you expect him to grunt?
Darren ... you are an amazing human being! Never change 😍
Darran, wow... "I'm in the business of empathy." - Thank you! I want to watch this show!
Darrel Criss is magnificent in the role of Andrew Cunana
State of society also played huge role in these murders.
How do you mean?
The greatest role of Darren, he just got into Cunanan's mind to understand the mind of frustrated person who wanted to be famous and rich and ended up as brutal serial killer
Bravo Darren Criss, one of the few people who actually got it right! Without ever meeting my brother, I couldn't have described him much better. Thank you
Wow, are you really Andrew’s brother?
Lol sure he is.
He articulated it well.
He's very believable as Andrew cunanan. Excellent actor.
Darren,you are so talented. When you were singing along with Laura Branigan you won my heart, it looked like you were having so much fun in that scene! GLORIA, ...eh duh...yes, why isn’t anybody CALLING. LOL
Darren, you are the “King of Careoke” 😲
And he ate Oreos, too!
He’s a very good actor, watching this show for second time … love his acting also is super handsome !
Omg Blaine Anderson I loved him in Glee he was my fave long live the Warblers.He's such a brilliant actor hope we see a lot more of him.❤️
Absolutely terrific performance from Darren as usual! Love this guy!
Oh my word, very intelligent.
He is such a good actor. Here, a normal interview. And here is me,scared and waiting for him to do something crazy
How well he answered.💖
I've tried very hard not to like this kid, but his portrayal of Cunanan was unreal and phenomenal.
He's playing a part actors do. What's not to like!?✌
Darren Criss is *SO* intelligent and lovable and that’s why he’s so amazing at acting. He’s able to become the character and not just portray them and make you feel like you are actually watching Andrew Cunanan which is insane. My favorite actor by far. 😍😍😍👑
It wasn't that he was unloved, he had an enormous amount of self hatred. That is what drove him. Self destructive self loathing.
I would argue that he hated his circumstances and the way his true status appeared. Liars lie because the truth is not good enough.
Sometimes liars hate themselves, but sometimes they don't.
I think Andrew hated the family he was born into and think they didn’t mask up to his potential in life and then blamed him for the failures he failed to accomplish for himself because I don’t think he thought he had to work so hard because of how smart he was. He thought life would come easily for him and then he would outshine his whole family but when he realized that being smart was not enough, he hated himself and his family and wanted to just rush into the life he always wanted
Andrew was well loved by his father as a child and he got everything he asked for, yet his father abandoned him. I think what triggered him is when people around him became distant and rejected him.
A lot of it was how he was raised. He was treated special aside from his brother and sister. That's such a terrible thing to do to a child because guess what, that child has to be an adult one day and the world is not gona give you rainbows and lollipops. The world is mean. He had a reality check; his dad leaving, he is no longer 'rich' the way he thought he was, he had to work, his mom is not all there - it triggered something in him. It's quite sad because his whole life was a lie and reality kicked in and there is when the unhappiness came.
He hated that no one thought he was special like he was raised to believe. Darren going on about having empathy for him is ridiculous. AC was nothing but destruction.
He's very wise.
‘I’m in the business of empathy’ DARREN WHAT DO U MEANNNNN
He was brilliant in this series! Such a talented actor 👏
I just knew that Darren Criss is half filipino like his role Andrew Cunanan (yes, he's half filipino, too.)
Wow such an intelligent human being
im this close to putting a picture of AC on my wall.
Andrew's was another case of mindless success worship. Andrew was brought up being told that he was special, that is why he was showed with gifts which again confirmed the fact that he was successful and special.
For him success was not a result of something. It was a state of being. As a child it was the only emotion he was taught and it was linked to his sence of self so deeply that he wouldn't know himself without it.
And not surprisingly he would spend all his money on other people to show he was successful, because that was the only way he knew of gaining love.
It is very natural that when he is own his own and failing in multiple levels- work, friendship and love, someone who was never taught as a child to deal with failure will not know how to deal with failure.
He did an amazing job!!!!!
For once a real person and not a caricature of greedy , selfish all consuming , I love myself only, self belief!
Refreshing and interesting to listen to.
Darren is so intelligent that's how actors should be.
not only super hot super smart to :)
His sober realism , and perspective on the reality of American society is what made Darren execute such a good performance, possessing so much empathy for Andrews' social archetype. ...Imagine what a better story/script writer, who expressed Andrews' inner conflict with homosexuality could have done with Darren ! ... But that would have been too touchy and frowned upon for Hollywood and its audience. Practically unfeasible, no matter how more of an intelligent story it would have resulted in.
Darren Criss , you were amazing in this movie
I miss Larry
Talented Actor
Great actor
Darren is a great actor.
This guy did a wonderful job and that could not have been easy thing.
This is my baby and I am so PROUD
I actually love Cunanan because of Darren Criss
One best portrayals of a real person in 21st Century
For me ! He is Andrew Cunanan!
omg, Big Andrew Cunanan!
I don't think that beard is gunna win him any roles (and I don't mean his gf)
id love spanish subtitles so much.
Marie V. Me too Linda, Me too...
Andrew was Filipino Italian. Criss is Irish Italian. Yes?
Criss is also half Filipino! GOOGLE it
What an intelligent gorgeous man 😚
He played the character so well I can't stand Darren!!!
Cunanan was a narcissist, a flawless chameleon. Those who’ve had a lot of 1:1 contact with psychopaths recognize that they are bottomless & vacuous making them the ultimate apex predator.
Their “gift” is in knowing what to show you to disarm you, a looking glass reflecting whatever mirage will get him what he wants. Norman Blachford was one of the few who, through “due diligence” discovered that far from being a diamond in the rough, Andrew was a two-bit hustler expertly playing each mark!
Criss’s comment that there was “a lot to like about Andrew” is oddly naive. I doubt that there was ANYONE on this earth who ever met the real Andrew - including Andrew Cunanan himself. Psychopathy is probably genetic, it’s theorized that upbringing (may) determine whether such genes remain dormant. Whatever the case, his parents certainly didn’t nurture a healthy self esteem in this man.
I basically agree with everything except the bit about Criss' comment about empathy. Like he said, it's his job to have empathy because it makes him a better actor. That's why he was excellent in this series. Also, I am pretty sure that Criss studied Cunanan way more than either of us, so it's a bit naive to think that we know the man better than Criss.
its cuz normal people empathize... sociopaths do not empathize... andrew was a sociopath and they don't function well in the real world if they don't get their way they are their own and worst true enemy
He's genius
Do you have newclear weapons
Are you developing newclear weapons
I think he really admire Cunanan! It's not your job to like the guy, it's your job to play him!
Extremely talented guy. No offense, but he played a gay guy better than a lot of real gay guys, if that makes any sense lol.
I think Darren was possessed by cunanan during the shoot considering that they both have filipino genes they connect instantly that why darren was so effective on his potrayal as the cunanan..this guy has greatness on him another gold in Hollywood..ang a genius in the Industry..
If one were to dissect his whole life and point out that one moment where it started to go wrong, what would it be? For me, all f this happened because he never saw his parents in love.
PayPal Gupta Neither did I, so weird that I’ve made it to 45 and haven’t killed a single person yet.
No apologies. He enjoyed what he did and would have continued to destroy lives if he had not killed himself!
He took innocent lives and was a danger whilst he was a live. If one of those victims were our friend or relatives I'm not sure we'd find it in our hearts to want to work out why he did what he did. The brutality, manipulation and intent was evident.
I don't want to know what was going on in his mind n why. The brutality with no remorse was evident!
What he couldn't have he would destroy and get great pleasure and satisfaction then relief .
Very disturbed and should hv been been caught and sent to death row! !!👏
Can't look at the best parts of him!
Wait, what was so positive about his life? What good things are happening? Based on the show, I observed a deeply depressing life and life style. I’m not sure I follow the whole “so many great things” going on characteristic. And again, based on the show, and in my non-professional opinion, his life fits perfectly Into the mold of what shapes a killer. From child hood to death, and in his own eyes, his life was chaotic, unbalanced, void of any love, void of meaningful relationships, full of rejection and out of control. All characteristics of a world created by his own father’s pure neglect. We saw three people who “knew” Andrew. One of them became hostage to him. One was murdered after trying to retrieve his gun. And one pleaded for him to turn himself in. All three of these people had one thing in common. They were all scared of him. To truly know Andrew you would be afraid of him. Maybe I’m mis understanding the comments here..
you're not misunderstanding. your opinion is actually pretty close to the one a professional would have. -thank you for being sane and more power to you !
The wasted potential of Cunanan's life and his troubled upbringing are undeniably sad, but are nothing in comparison to the pain and anguish he inflicted on his victims and the victims' families, who had their loved ones tragically taken away from them. This idea should have been at the core of Season 2, like it was with the OJ case in Series 1. The show definitely 'empathised' with Cunanan a little too much for my liking, or maybe that was how it appeared by the chronology of the show. It seems sneaky to show the brutal crimes and work backwards to him as a troubled teen and then, bam, hit us with the final episode.
Darren is so hot!
I love him and Chris colfer!
Sorry my heart doesn't "break" for Cunan. He was a cold-blooded killer. Enough said.