My worst moment: Gary Cole remembers Chicago theater and the worst review of his career
CHICAGO — Few actors shift as seamlessly between comedy and drama as Gary Cole, who is known for everything from “Office Space,” to “Veep” to “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” to “The West Wing” and “The Good Fight.”
Currently, he can be seen on the Showtime drama “Waco: The Aftermath,” which examines the fallout of the disastrous 1993 FBI standoff at the Branch Davidian compound. Cole plays Gordon Novel, a real person who worked as an investigator for the attorneys of the survivors of Waco.
“He’s a pretty murky character, and what I mean by that is, he’s kind of the Forrest Gump of large criminal investigations,” said Cole. “And the reason they hired him is, he’s that kind of guy who can find out things
