Christian Slater gets to play two characters in My Own Worst Enemy. Edward Albright is a secret agent who maintains his cover by actually having the personality of Henry Spivey implanted for his downtime. When the two worlds collide, Henry is out of his depth and he compromises Edward's missions.
Christian Slater His Own Worst Enemy
"I would say Edward has some skills that I'm looking forward to delving more into and getting deeper and deeper into the action," said Slater. "Henry is certainly a more passive guy, but he's got some skills. He's good with puzzles, word games and things like that. I'm sure those are all elements that will be brought into future episodes and used somewhere in the spy world."
The complicated premise will give the show lots of material to explore, as the two sides of Slater's character find ways to interact. "They've found different way to communicate. Edward's found ways to warn Henry of possible dangers and ways to get prepared. In this first episode, one of the interesting aspects of it is: If I had to classify who is whose Own Worst Enemy, it would actually be Henry. Henry's the one that gets involved in a situation in Moscow, waking up in a hostage-type situation, doesn't know what to do and ends up giving away more information than he should and getting himself in a lot more trouble than Edward necessarily would. It would be like playing tennis back and forth, between the two characters."
For the first episode, producers scheduled Slater for exclusively Henry days and exclusively Edward days to help him establish each distinct personality. "That certainly helps. In the first episode, it made it fun and it made the other actors feel they were working with two actors. That would be my intention, not to change myself too much behind the scenes, but there is such a distinct different between the two characters. I hope that the way they edit it and in the way I performed it, it will be clear enough to audiences. There are some pretty quick, rapid transitions that we ended up shooting."
As with many carefully plotted shows, even Slater doesn't know where My Own Worst Enemy is going. " It's fun, It's challenging. This show obviously lends itself to mystery and intrigue and it's set in the spy world, so not having all the information is actually fun. I can only assume it's a very human, emotional story and over the course of however many episodes we have the opportunity to do, at the end of the day, it's going to be a story about finding balance. That's only my projection, though. I have no idea."
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