India, Nov. 1 -- Actor Michael Chernus played the eponymous serial killer in the recently released true crime series, Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy. For him, the most amusing part about his character was the normalcy of it. "What's scary about a number of these serial killers is that they are living amongst us. They are sort of hiding in plain sight, and he's the epitome of that. He's the perfect example of that as he was not hiding. He was just out there in plain sight. He was trying to fit into normal society," he says.

Elaborating further on John's persona, Michael shares, "He was very involved with local politics. One of the things that people always associate with him, that the media kind of got wrong in the '70s, was that he w...