CLEVELAND, Ohio –Chameleonic actor Stephen Root has been a scene-stealer for decades. Memorable sublime roles include portraying the red stapler-loving Milton (“Office Space”) and a blind radio station manager (“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”) to more recently being an abhorrent monster of a father (“Uncle Frank”) and a drunken Porter (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”). Then there’s the fun HBO show “Barry,” which premieres its third season Sunday on HBO and HBO Max. The dark comedy revolves around a beloved yet depressed hitman from Cleveland (Season 1 featured him wearing a vintage WMMS T-shirt), who despite wanting to start a new life as an aspiring Los Angeles actor can’t escape his criminal past. Starring opposite Bill Hader, Root plays Monroe Fuches, who as a hit-job broker doesn’t want to see Barry leave the business. We recently chatted with Root about being the GOAT character actor and why Milton would love his…
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