Oscar winner J.K. Simmons on his long career and pulling double duty in the new Starz thriller 'Counterpart'
On an ordinary morning, J.K. Simmons contemplates the "what ifs" in his life.
The actor, 63, has played dozens of characters over the course of a decades-long career, including a neo-Nazi in the HBO series "Oz," an enigmatic music teacher in "Whiplash" and the guy who knows a thing or two in those Farmers Insurance commercials.
But would those roles, and his other achievements, still have fallen into place if, at roughly 35 years old, a gig as an understudy on Broadway had gone differently?
"I thought I was going to have the opportunity to move up from being the understudy to
