NEW YORK (AP) " Viewers might be unsure about his character on TNT's "Animal Kingdom," but Scott Speedman says he's OK with that.
The series is about a family of boys living a life of crime and grit. They're led by their mother, played by Ellen Barkin, who goes by the name of Smurf (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. EDT). It's based on an Australian film of the same name.
"You've got these hyper-masculine characters, but really they're mama's boys," said Speedman, who plays the oldest son, Baz. "They're really under the thumb of their mother, and it creates interesting, compelling scenes to play."
Speedman said of his character: "Outwardly he seems like the good brother, or maybe the one who has it together."
"What the writers are doing," he said, "is really playing with people's perception of the characters, so who you think is good is not necessarily so, and who you think is on the outside of good or most evil has definitely the most moral code of all the brothers."