On this episode, one of Spider-Noir's villains explains why he thinks the actor is the most replaceable person on a film set, and the conversation goes everywhere a junket never does, from a homicide-detective father to the studio he left Hollywood to build.

Andrew Lewis Caldwell is the actor behind two decades of comedy and voice work, from Hannah Montana to College to the game Deathloop, now playing the electric, theatrical villain Megawatt in Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir on Prime Video.

Andrew opens up about why he walked away from the Los Angeles actor lifestyle after his son was born, unwilling to let the boy watch his father beg for work. He talks about building a life and an acting studio outside Buffalo instead, and getting cast in Spider-Noir shortly after the move. He gets candid about his father, a homicide detective in Flint, Michigan for more than thirty years, and the kind of validation that never came from a role. Andrew walks through how he built Megawatt one layer at a time, starting from a single shell-shocked face in a group photo and deciding the man sees the whole world as a stage (the character's real name is Dirk Leydon). He also reflects on the first play he ever did, where he wore one of his dad's actual police uniform shirts, and finding that same shirt back in his childhood home twenty-eight years later.

What comes up:

• Why he left the LA actor lifestyle after his son was born
• The film with John Goodman that never saw the light of day
• The most replaceable role on any movie set, in his own words
• His father, the Flint homicide detective, and what finally earned the nod
• Building Megawatt one layer at a time, from a single photo

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