After decades of playing the guest-star game, it’s Zahn McClarnon’s time to take center stage.
Episode. The Denver-born actor has been a mainstay on the small screen ever since he moved to Los Angeles in the 1990s, but only recently did prestige TV seem to figure out just how good he was.’s second season in an initially small role that turned pivotal at the story’s bloody climax.
“I’ve been on cloud nine for the last decade,” McClarnon tells me over Zoom, that iconic, evocative face of the small screen sneaking in a grin. And that aforementioned trio doesn’t even take into account the biggest career leap McClarnon has taken of late: His first lead role, in AMC’sThe psychological thriller smartly embraces conventions of the cop drama while forging its own path in its focus on two Navajo police officers investigating a murder in the ’70s Southwest. Putting a fresh spin on classic genre fare, the show is a great metaphor for how a perennial, oft underused scene-stealer has enhanced popular shows for decades.
For better and for worse, McClarnon filled a Hollywood niche. “I got typecast right away,” he says. “It was usually the bad kid or the gangbanger.” But he found some unusual opportunity within that. In 1992, he won a lead role in thePamela Anderson ’s C.J. has just accepted a position, and which is planning to sell off sacred land. He says it was actually a backdoor pilot meant to spin off into a Malibu High series vehicle for Anderson, who’d joinedThe episode still marked a turning point. A few years later, McClarnon booked a recurring role on the Old West–setas Walks on Cloud, the son of Cloud Dancing . “It was stereotypical Native stuff, but that’s all that we really had back then,” McClarnon says.
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