Conversations with Ian McShane

A Career Retrospective with Ian McShane. Moderated by Dominic Patten, Deadline.

A natural at portraying complex anti-heroes and charming heavies, IAN McSHANE is the classically trained, award-winning actor who has grabbed attention and acclaim from audiences and critics around the world with his unforgettable gallery of scoundrels, kings, mobsters and thugs.

And, now, a god as well!

McShane just completed his second season (as star and executive producer) on the hit Starz series, “American Gods,” the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel. As Mr. Wednesday, a shifty, silver-tongued conman, he masks his true identity — that of the Norse god of war, Odin, who’s assembling a team of elders to bring down the new false idols. A series McShane calls “like nothing else I’ve seen on television.”