"Of all of his TV and film roles, Watkins popped on 1999's The Mummy, and his children watched in horror as his character, the bespectacled tomb raider Bernard Burns, had his eyes ripped out of his skull by the titular undead beast. "They both, at the same time, just started bawling," Watkins deadpans. "I was fumbling for the remote to turn it off.""
"In fairness, few of Watkins' roles have a child-friendly stamp. After brief appearances on Baywatch and Growing Pains in the early '90s, he got his proper TV breakthrough playing bumbling bad boy David Vickers on ABC daytime soap One Life To Life [ OLTL], on and off from 1994 to 2013. It's one of the defining roles of his career, but isn't quite a kid's idea of a good time."
"His appearances in a slew of cop dramas - CSI, Cold Case - are too bloody. Perhaps his role as Pistol Pete in sitcom Parks and Recreation? If his pre-teens are on TikTok, they've probably already come across Desperate Housewives' Bob Hunter. "There's nothing worse than an actor who has kids who encourages their children to watch their work," Watkins says. "So if they come to it naturally, so be it.""
Tuc Watkins, 59, plays Robert in Exit Interviews, a lovelorn gay middle-aged writer who interviews all his ex-partners and compiles the footage into a documentary to confront his loneliness. Each former partner represents a different element of romantic relationships. Watkins's career includes roles on One Life to Live (David Vickers), appearances on Baywatch, Growing Pains, CSI and Cold Case, and parts on Parks and Recreation and Desperate Housewives (Bob Hunter). A childhood anecdote recounts his twins' distress watching his gruesome scene in The Mummy. Exit Interviews premiered at FilmOut San Diego and will screen at Atlanta's Out On Film on 26 September.
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