Evil star Kurt Fuller shares his thoughts on fan theories and what to expect for the rest of season 4

After producing Emmy-nominated hit shows like The Good Wife and its follow-up The Good Fight, countless fans were left wondering what super producers Michelle and Robert King would come up with next. Come 2019, they released one of their best and most popular shows yet: the supernatural horror series Evil, which initially premiered on CBS before moving full-time to the network's Paramount+ streaming service.

The series follows an unorthodox trio comprising a forensic psychologist, a Catholic priest, and a tech contractor as they investigate supposed supernatural and demonic events for the church. Throughout the show's four-season run, we've seen all sorts of strange, unexplainable phenomena, including angels, demons, ghosts, and all kinds of urban legends. A staple in Evil is keeping the true nature of its horror ambiguous. The majority of cases could be supernatural in origin, but there's always a plausible scientific or psychological explanation, too.

While Evil has been consistently excellent from the start, that didn't stop Paramount+ from sadly canceling the show, which is set to wrap this summer after its extended fourth season ends. However, since its early seasons were added to Netflix, Evil has greatly benefitted from the "Netflix bump" and consistently ranked in the Nielsen streaming charts for several weeks now, accumulating more than 449 million minutes viewed across both the Netflix and Paramount+ platforms. Surely that warrants a second look at the show and potentially renewing it for more seasons? Especially since everyone in the cast is eager to continue?

With the fourth season more than halfway over, we had the opportunity to talk to one of the series mainstays, Kurt Fuller, who has played therapist Dr. Kurt Boggs since the beginning. While he started as a touchstone for Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), Dr. Kurt's role has expanded significantly since then in surprising ways.

During our interview with Fuller, he discusses his experience working on the show, whether that dang "Alouette" song got stuck in his head, and what to expect from his character in the episodes ahead.

Dr. Boggs gets some 'serious stuff' to do in the final episodes of season 4

1428 ELM: Kurt's character has changed quite a bit since the start. He started off as the straight-laced therapist and now he's consorting with demons, but it lets you flex your comedic chops.

KURT FULLER: Here's the thing, when you do a long-running show, they sort of take their cues about how to write to you by your performance. And even though I was happy to play him straight-laced, I enjoyed that, but this show actually has a lot of humor in it, which I think is great. I always go for the funny. Sometimes, they have to go, "OK, Kurt. No, don't be funny." I go, okay, you're right. Sorry. But they still know. They let me do the funny, but they also let me do the serious, and in the last four episodes, I have some very serious stuff.

The scripts teach you who your character is, and the writers, they get their inspiration or their ideas from how you approach the character. I did go from pretty straight, well, very straight, very wrapped tight to, you know, coming in contact with Kristen and [Ben and David], and Sister Andrea and I got caught in the web of their lives. It affects you and it changes you. It corrupted Doctor Boggs.

"They let me do the funny, but they also let me do the serious, and in the last four episodes, I have some very serious stuff. "

He's a guy who's trying to be good, who has been tempted to be bad. A guy who's trying to be the best psychologist, taking his clues from life, and how the mind works with reality. And he's seen things that have no basis in his world and are, cannot be real, according to the way he has been brought up, and the way he has thought his whole life. His world has been rocked. So, Boggs is just sort of spinning around now, and he doesn't know which way is up and it's kind of great.

Is Dr. Kurt Boggs secretly a prophet?

1428 ELM: Kurt has always been the subject of fan theories. Back in the day, people thought he was maybe in league with the Devil, but now I'm seeing theories that he's a prophet of some kind. What are your thoughts on that?

KURT FULLER: Really? Huh. Wow. You know, I get it, I get it. I'll tell you the last episodes, he has a couple of pretty magnificent moments, but not a prophet, no, he's not.

1428 ELM: Maybe people are thinking Supernatural.

KURT FULLER: Oh yeah, you know I was in Supernatural, too, and that was Chuck wasn't it?

1428 ELM: Chuck. I think whenever someone writes a book in TV, people think prophet. Did you get the "Alouette" song stuck in your head? It got stuck in mine just watching it.

KURT FULLER: Yes, and you know what? it's not even a pleasant tune really. And yet it won't go away. It's sort of like a nat in your year after a while.

1428 ELM: They had that other Christmas song in season 1, the Santa Claus one.

KURT FULLER: Another one that was not pleasant, you know, but really obsessive tunes.

1428 ELM: I was thinking, and I'm not sure if this might get you too far into spoiler territory, but this season introduces that muse character who visits David and Kristen. Might she come visit Kurt?

KURT FULLER: Well, you know, anything can happen. I'm not saying it is and I'm not saying it isn't, but not a bad thing to think about.

Kurt Fuller could have worked with Katja Herbers for every scene and been happy

1428 ELM: You worked with Katja Herbers frequently in the early seasons, but now that Kurt has started dabbling in demonic stuff, you get to work with more of the show's cast, like Michael Emerson. What's it been like to broaden yours, and Kurt's, scope on the show?

KURT FULLER: Well, selfishly, Katja is still one of the most underrated actresses in Hollywood. She's a genius, and if you look at my IMDb page, you'll see that I've worked with just about everybody, and she's right up there. Top drawer. Every scene could have been with Katja, and I would have been happy.

I always left a better actor because she's, she's just so good and she makes you forget. The only other thing I did, this movie called Ray where Jamie Foxx played Ray Charles. But that was the first time I worked where I forgot there were cameras there, and I forgot that he was not Ray Charles. He was that good.

"What can I say? I've never had a bad day on set on this show. "

And with Katja, again, I forget there's cameras. I usually have a very tough time crying on film. With her, she's so good I have to keep myself from getting emotional because it's really not appropriate. But I get so wrapped up. So, if I could stay with her, it would be fine. But luckily everyone else is so good, find a bad actor in this show. You can't, can't even find a weak link.

1428 ELM: The guest actors have been great, too, especially this season.

KURT FULLER: I always go, my God, these people, how did we get this person!? It's always just unbelievable. But you know, people like to do the Kings' shows because it's always such quality stuff and the casting director is great. What can I say? I've never had a bad day on set on this show.

Goat/Devil therapist vs. Dr. Kurt Boggs

1428 ELM: I have one more little question, a silly thing. If you were going to visit a therapist on this show, would you rather see Dr. Kurt Boggs or sit down with the goat therapist?

KURT FULLER: [Laughs] Well, I think the goat therapist would be a lot more fun than Kurt. But I think that if I want to get better, I'm not saying that Kurt could make me better, but I'd have a better chance. I'll go with—come on, I can't go against myself! I'd go see Kurt Boggs.

1428 ELM: That'd be a fun scene to play.

KURT FULLER: Yes it would, and it could happen in this show, couldn't it? We need another season.

1428 ELM: Exactly. Listen up, Netflix.

Some parts of this interview have been edited for length and clarity.

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