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Mist reminded him of one of his favorites. “One of the earliest credible films I saw was The Exorcist,” he says. “The Exorcist is a really, really scary film, and until late in the film, you don’t get all that floating, those effects – it’s a mother and a daughter living in a townhouse in Georgetown, and slowly, slowly, little things begin to happen. You’re living in their shoes, seeing things through their eyes, and it’s much more frightening to be that person in that situation than looking on: oh, that guy’s diabolical and he’s wearing a hockey mask and he’s got a knife! You know what I’m saying?”

Braugher has gotten to the point where a steady stream of work allows him to do what he wants – next up is Passengers with Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson. “It’s one of those mystery movies, I can’t talk about it too much. It has a hook, a twist, of some kind, and the more I say the more I’ll reveal. And Andromeda Strain, a miniseries, is coming out on A&E in February.”

He doesn’t even live in L.A., instead opting for suburban New Jersey. “I just don’t want to raise my children out there,” he says. “I don’t want to live out there. I just don’t want to live in a town where the business is everything, you know what I’m saying? I like bumping elbows with people, I like being east of the Mississippi. It’s just my thing.”

And for an actor best known for his gripping TV work, he doesn’t watch much. “No. I got three boys. You know what it’s like? There’s only so many hours in a day, and I choose to spend it with my wife and sons. Those boys, I mean, in ten years they’re all going to be flying away, so I gotta spend time with them while I can. I think in 2020 I’ll have plenty of time to watch TV.”

At the same time, he’s happy to say that he still enjoys his work, even in simpler roles like his army general in Rise of the Silver Surfer. “It’s all acting, it’s all fun,” he says with the smile of a contented man. “This is joyful to me. This is how I exercise my emotions. I’m on an incredible rollercoaster with all these characters, and that’s good, because I get to exercise the kind of emotions I usually don’t get a chance to tap. It takes me on an adventure, but it’s a hell of a lot safer than actually being on that adventure. I don’t want the feds after me, you know what I’m saying?”

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