Lucky Yates, Voice Of Dr. Krieger On Archer
What are your favorite Krieger moments in the show? It could be this season, could be any season.
Oh man. Oh man! That's a loaded one. I mean, there's so many great ones. I love when he takes Pigley III up to eat the, I believe they were North Koreans. They all got murdered. That's simple when he takes them up and just has him eat the corpse is, for some reason, is one of my favorites. I love the weird things. I love when he puts a tiny pig in his pocket. It's just the subtle little weird again, the mystery of it all.
I love the one episode when we see Krieger's disgusting apartment, where he's got skin suits hanging around and all that kind of stuff, and you see there's a shared bathroom. He lives in squalor, but he's getting paid. I can't imagine he's not making some good money at the agency. They seem to be doing pretty well, all of them. He has a very important job there. So seeing the squalor that he lives in and all the questions that presents and the doors that potentially opens, I love.
I also love when Krieger and Pam, they were at the Area 51 thing and they run into the aliens and the aliens sort of give them the secrets of the universe. That's still swimming around in there somewhere, that "what's that all about?" I love that crowd. Things that you see him do that leads to all kinds of questions and "Ooh, what ifs?"
How about any favorite guest stars?
So Jamie Lee Curtis, I am over the moon about. Weirdly enough, Peter Serafinowicz I was super pumped about. He did a James Mason [impression], essentially that Archer [nearly died], and he'd do a thing from Heaven Can Wait, a Warren Beatty film where it's sort of in the afterlife and the James Mason character's sort of guiding [Archer] around, and it's Peter Serafinowicz that does it, and I was really super pumped that that guy was on the show. Oh my God, there's Timothy Olyphant! I'm a huge fan of him, and so having that guy be on the show [was awesome], but nobody has really excited me more than Jamie Lee Curtis. I've been a fan of her for most of my life, and when I found out that she was an Archer fan, she's really into the show and I was like, "Oh my God! I'm a huge Jamie Lee Curtis fan, but potentially, she's a fan of mine!" and that makes me really crazy excited.