In just nine episodes of FX horror anthology series "American Horror Story: Freak Show," Fitt Wittrock has already taken over the show. With his character Dandy killing of one character from another, he became one of the most disliked character in the entire show. Wittrock's Dandy has become one of the biggest bad of this season and already killed a score of some characters, some of which are well-loved by fans.
The most heart-breaking of which is when Dandy killed his own mom Gloria Mott (Frances Conroy) using the head of one of his victims. What made it even more disgusting is when he bathed on her mother's blood. Although Dandy is easily considered as a villain by American Horror Story: Freak Show fans, for Wittrock, his character isn't that bad. He thinks the spoiled and emotionally stunted son of Gloria is in top three among all "American Horror Story: Freak Show" characters but not as villain alone.
"He's definitely in the top three, right? But I can never think of him as a villain. I can never think of him as evil. I just have to keep getting under his skin. But he realizes that his purpose in life is to kill. It doesn't get more dangerous than that," he said in an interview with Vulture.
"Because I actually found that the killing is not out of hatred. He kind of likes the people that he kills. He wanted to be a performer, and somehow that's transformed into murder, so he thinks of it as a performance, like he's fulfilling his destiny."
The "American Horror Story: Freak Show" scene stealer who also stars in Angelina Jolie directed film "Unbroken" explained that Dandy may just be possessed by his obsession to become part of the freak show.
"Yeah, I think you're diverted by the clown. And John Carroll Lynch was so good in it, and the design of the clown was so scary and terrifying. I think that they wisely realized that it's better to keep it short and have the clown be the scariest clown you've ever seen and then move on, you know? And, yes, Dandy revered the clown, he puts him on a pedestal, he wants to be him, and then he basically becomes him. I mean, he becomes his own version of him. He's still Dandy. I think he inhabits the clown's spirit and that liberates him to do all the nefarious things that he does."
